Court Opinion

ID: 9619583
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:29:58.521864+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:42.537645
License: Public Domain

HALL, Chief Justice
(Concurring and Dissenting):
I join the opinion of the Court, except the portion thereof that declines to address the contention of the Fund that no compensation shall be allowed Rhodes for his condition of chronic alcoholism.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Fund did not seek reversal of that portion of the award based upon chronic alcoholism, as a matter of law, Rhodes is not entitled to such an award.
This Court should exercise its prerogative to correct this obvious error in the application of the law and should, upon remand, order the reversal of the 4% increase in the permanent partial disability rating attributable to alcoholism.