Raymond J. Wilkins v. Blanchard-Mcdonald

This cause comes before us on exceptions taken on behalf of the employer and the insurance carrier to an award of compensation made by the Commissioner of Industrial Relations to the claimant and to the findings of fact upon which the award is based. The findings state that the claimant sustained a personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment; that he was thereby temporarily totally disabled for work for a period of fifty-three weeks, and that he has, as a result of his injury a fifty per cent permanent impairment of the physical function of his back. The Commissioner has awarded compensation at the rate of $15. a week for temporary total disability for a period of fifty-two weeks, commencing on the eighth day of such disability, and compensation at the same rate for permanent partial disability for a period of one hundred and thirty weeks as authorized by P. L. 6527, subdivision XX.