Vanguard Pest Control v. Turner

MILLS, Judge.

In this workers’ compensation appeal from an order awarding temporary total disability (TTD) and permanent total disability (PTD) benefits, as well as ongoing medical treatment, the employer/carrier assert error in the deputy commissioner’s failure to find Turner’s pre-existing multiple sclerosis (MS) was only temporarily exacerbated by the industrial accident, such that there is no causal connection between the accident and Turner’s permanent disability. The employer/carrier submit further error was committed by the deputy commissioner when he failed to apportion Turner’s…