STEAM & PROCESS REPAIRS v. Cayton

THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.

Steam & Process Repairs (“S & P”) appeals from the trial court’s judgment in this workers’ compensation action. In its appeal, S & P contends that the trial court erred in the way it gave credit to S & P for temporary-total-disability payments S & P made to employee Michael V. Cayton after Cayton had reached maximum medical improvement (“MMI”).

The pertinent facts are as follows. From May 22, 2004, to April 18, 2008, S & P voluntarily paid Cayton $513.54 a week in temporary-total-disability benefits for a back injury Cayton had sustained in a work-related accident.…