Fountain Motor Co. v. Zibrin

WIGGINTON, Judge.

Appellants, employer/carrier, appeal the deputy commissioner’s order finding that appellee has a 14 percent permanent impairment and directing employer/carrier to pay him temporary partial disability benefits from January 1 to April 24, 1987. We reverse and remand.

Appellee injured his back in a work-related accident on March 18, 1986, and was originally diagnosed as having a back strain. By December 30, 1986, after appel-lee had been examined by no less than five doctors, including an orthopedist, a neurosurgeon, and a chiropractor, and after he had undergone extensive…