Fellows, Read & Weber v. Lance

JOANOS, Judge.

The employer/carrier in this worker’s compensation appeal challenges an award of temporary total disability during a period of time when the claimant was unemployed due to a compensable knee injury. We affirm the deputy’s order and reject the E/C’s argument that physical inability to work is the sole factor in determining temporary total disability.

The evidence reflects that the following took place. Claimant sustained a knee injury on the job yet continued to work until his condition significantly worsened. At that point, he went to a physician, who restricted claimant to…