Ramada Inn v. Gates

The employer/carrier appeals a workers’ compensation order awarding temporary total disability benefits, payment of certain outstanding medical bills, transportation and drug reimbursement costs. The employer/carrier first contends that the Deputy Commissioner erred in accepting claimant’s testimony that she sustained a compensable accident on December 4, 1979, while rejecting other large portions of her testimony as “inherently difficult to believe” because of “their lack of plausiblity” and because of claimant’s demeanor. However, the claimant’s testimony that a com-pensable accident…