HUTSON v. STATE PORTS AUTHORITY

No. 4737.

390 S.C. 108 (2010)

700 S.E.2d 462

Franklin HUTSON, Appellant v. S.C. STATE PORTS AUTHORITY, Employer, and State Accident Fund, Carrier, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided September 8, 2010.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. White , of Goose Creek, for Appellant.

Margaret Mary Urbanic , of Charleston, for Respondents.


THOMAS, J.

This is a workers' compensation case. At issue in this appeal is the award to the claimant, Franklin Hutson, following his attainment of maximum medical improvement (MMI), that limited his recovery to correspond with a thirty-percent loss of use to his back. We affirm in part and remand this matter to the commission for further proceedings.1

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In 1997, Hutson began working as a crane...

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