Doral Country Club v. Gonzalez

This is an appeal of a workers’ compensation order awarding claimant temporary partial disability benefits for three periods: 1) while claimant continued to work for the employer at diminished post-injury earnings; 2) while claimant worked as a security guard for 20 hours a week at $3.35 per hour; and 3) after claimant’s employment as a security guard lapsed and the deputy deemed his earnings at his prior security guard rate of pay, $3.35.

Medical testimony supports the deputy’s conclusion that claimant’s diminished earnings during the time he continued to work for his former employer were a…