James Rigney v. United Technologies

This worker's compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tennessee Code Annotated section 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact and conclusions of law. The trial court found that the employee suffered a permanent psychological injury while working, and awarded seventy percent (70%) permanent partial vocational disability to the body as a whole. The employer has appealed that ruling, contending that the evidence preponderates against the trial court's findings that the employee received a permanent psychological injury and that the award of seventy percent disability to the body as a whole is excessive. Also, the employer contends that the trial court erred in awarding the payment of past and future medical treatment. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.