Section 52-1-44 - Compensation benefits; facial disfigurement.
52-1-44. Compensation benefits; facial disfigurement.
For serious permanent disfigurement about the face or head, the workers' compensation judge may allow, in addition to other compensation benefits that may be allowed under the Workers' Compensation Act [this article], an additional sum for compensation on account of the serious permanent disfigurement as he deems just but not to exceed a maximum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500).