Lenita Oatsvall v. Baptist Memorial

The employer, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Huntingdon appeals a judgment awarding the employee benefits based upon a permanent partial impairment of fifty (5%) percent to the body as a whole. The hospital contends that the judgment should be reversed and dismissed because the employee failed to give proper notice of the accident and because her injury was a preexisting condition rather than an injury caused by a job-related accident. Alternatively, the employer insists that the award of fifty (5%) percent permanent partial disability to the body as whole should be modified and reduced. For the reasons stated in this opinion, We affirm the judgment of the trial court.