Raymond Hicks v. Wilbert Vault Company.

This is an appeal by the employer, Wilbert Vault Company, from a judgment awarding worker's compensation benefits to the employee, Raymond Hicks, based upon a finding that the employee sustained 40 percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole. On this appeal, the defendant/employer presents issues alleging that the trial court erred in finding that the plaintiff/employee sustained any permanent disability as a result of the work-related injury and that the award of 40 percent permanent partial disability to the body as whole was excessive and not supported by a preponderance of the evidence. Upon our de novo review, we find that the award should be based upon permanent partial disability of 30 percent to the body and modify the judgment accordingly.