Strother v. City of Marksville—Police Department

|J concur with the majority’s decision to affirm the award of temporary total disability benefits (TTDs) and medical expenses. Though I do not necessarily agree with the WCJ’s and the majority’s-decision on this issue and may have decided differently as the trier of fact, I recognize that the WCJ has vast discretion to make credibility decisions. Entitlement to TTDs and medical expenses based on the claimant’s alleged “boxing injury” while in the training academy for the City of Marksville-Police Department (Marksville Police) was hotly contested by Defendant. However, there was sufficient…