James Burks v. Williams Typesetting, Inc.

The trial court found the employee was permanently and totally disabled. The employee appealed insisting the award should be fixed as a permanent partial award payable for a period of 4 weeks. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed as to the 1 percent award of permanent and total disability, the denial of attorney's fees on unpaid medical expenses and the commutation of a lump-sum award for payment of attorney's fees. The judgment is reversed as to allowing a credit against the total disability award and the commutation of benefits in favor of the employee. The case is remanded for the purpose of amending the judgment to allow additional temporary total benefits and for further hearing on the employee's application for commutation benefits.