Raymond James & Associates v. Smith

An employer and its insurance carrier appeal a final order requiring payment of “permanent total disability benefits at the rate of $209.47 per week, plus appropriate supplemental benefits” rather than at the reduced rate the appellants began paying when they accepted Desiree Smith as permanently totally disabled and recalculated the “reverse offset” for social security disability benefits they first took against temporary total disability benefits. We affirm.

The final order chronicles pertinent events with clarity and precision on which we are unable to improve:

2. The claimant, Desiree…