...addressed, is that of permanent partial disability. Under California Law, Labor Cede §4660 provides; "In determining the percentages of permanent disability,...occupation of the injured employee, and his age at time of such injury; consideration being given to the diminished ability of such employee to compete...

...assumptions. Only California's 1913 law hinted, with a single clause, at a different concept of disability: In determining the percentages of permanent disability,...of the injured employee and his age at the time of the injury.51 This portion of the law indicates recognition that exactly the same injuries did 'not...

...excess of sixty per cent to be paid during the remainder of life." Subdivision 7 reads as follows: " (7) In determining the percentages of permanent disability,...employee and his age at the time of such injury-" The power of the commission to award compensation is, of course, derived from the statute and exists...

...both eyes, both hands, total paralysis, or severe brain injury are presumptively total and permanent. "In determining the percentages of permanent disability,...disfigurement, the occupation of the injured employee, and his or her age at the time of the injury, consideration being given to an employee's diminished future...

...work for which he had been employed at the time of the injury is not the sole measure of disability. "In determining the percentages of permanent disability,...employee and his age at the time of such injury." (Workmen's Compensation Act, sec. 15, subd. 2 [7]. Even if it be conceded that the facts stipulated...

...enact fixed standards for determining the percentages of permanent disability, taking into account the nature of the physical injury or disfigurement,...employee, and his age at the time of such injury. Consideration also would be given to the loss of competing ability of such employee in the labor market....