Southland Corp. v. Hunt

NIMMONS, Judge.

The employer and carrier appeal an award of compensation benefits based upon a finding of permanent total disability (PTD). Claimant was a Southland Corporation employee who administered polygraph examinations for the employer. In August, 1981, at the age of fifty, he sustained a compensable injury when he fell down in one of the employer’s stores and suffered a herniated cervical disc. We reverse the PTD award on the ground that there is no competent substantial evidence supporting the deputy commissioner’s finding that the claimant was “not able to do even light work due to…