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ABSHER v. STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS

No. 1468.

500 P.2d 1004 (1972)

John ABSHER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS and Employers Insurance of Wausau, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 11, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Ames Luce, Anchorage, for appellant.

Richard A. Helm and Theodore M. Pease, Jr., Anchorage, for appellee.

Before BONEY, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, and ERWIN, JJ.

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

At issue in this workmen's compensation appeal is the method by which a lump sum award should be computed for an unscheduled permanent partial disability.

In the proceedings before the Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board the evidence showed that appellant, as a result of a compensable industrial accident, suffered a disability of his back of 15 or 16 percent. The board decided that this represented a 20 percent loss of earning...

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