Murphree Bridge Corp. v. Brown

JOANOS, Judge.

The employer and carrier in this workers’ compensation cause appeal a final order in which the deputy commissioner awarded a partial advance of wage-loss benefits. The issues presented for our review are: (1) whether an employee who is receiving wage-loss benefits is entitled to receive an advance payment of those benefits, and (2) whether the order awarding an advance payment must provide for recoupment of the advance by the employer and carrier. We reverse.

In January 1983, claimant suffered a compensable knee injury. As a result of that injury, claimant has undergone two…