Stone v. A & G Plastering

McCORD, Judge.

Stone, a construction worker who was injured on the job, appeals a worker’s compensation order in which the deputy commissioner denied Stone’s claim for temporary total disability, established a date of maximum medical improvement, rejected a request for payment of past and future medical care by the treating physician and determined that temporary disability benefits should be discounted on the ground that Stone could earn $100 per week if only he had accepted, or would accept, employment.

We reverse the finding of MMI because at the final hearing the parties stipulated that…