R.D. Brown Contractors v. Padgett

SHIVERS, Chief Judge.

•The employer/carrier appeal a workers’ compensation order awarding temporary total disability (TTD) benefits from April 1, 1988, through January 19, 1989. We reverse.

In order to be entitled to TTD benefits the claimant in a workers’ compensation case bears the burden of showing a *500lack of capacity to work by either: (1) producing medical evidence that he was unable to work, or (2) testing his ability to work by way of an adequate job search. Area Electric Service, Inc. v. Cunningham, 538 So.2d 471 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989); Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Williams,…