Lone Star v. Butler

JOANOS, Judge.

The employer/carrier appeal the deputy commissioner’s order finding the claimant permanently totally disabled, setting July 9, 1980, as the date of maximum medical improvement, ordering the payment of temporary total disability benefits from May 29, 1980, to July 9,1980, and reserving jurisdiction to determine whether employer/carrier are entitled to credit for permanent disability payments made between May 29, 1980 and July 9, 1980. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Claimant, at the time of the injury, March 21, 1979, was a 59 year old cement truck driver. He was standing…