Multi-Craft Contractors, Inc., and Gallagher Bassett Services, Appellants/cross-Appellees v. Rick Yousey…

Summary

The court upheld the Commission’s award of a 29 percent whole-body impairment rating for Yousey’s brain injury because the severe skull fractures, pneumocephalus, imaging evidence, and medical testimony constituted substantial evidence of a compensable brain injury. It affirmed the denial of benefits for trigeminal-nerve impairment because the rating was based solely on pain, but modified the left-eye award to reflect that the injury was a scheduled injury rather than a whole-body impairment. The court vacated the court of appeals’ opinion and otherwise affirmed the Commission as modified.