Lido Spa Hotel v. Perez

The employer/carrier, in this appeal from an award of temporary total disability compensation and medical benefits, asserts lack of competent substantial evidence to prove disability or to show causal relation between claimant’s hernia and the accident of March 16, 1980, and error in award of penalties, interest, costs and fees.

Claimant’s medical witness confirmed a causal relationship between the accident and a hernia not immediately diagnosed as such by examining physicians who did not testify. The witness further attest*304ed claimant’s inability to work, in any occupation for which he is…