Faulk v. Roadway Express, Inc.

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Claimant seeks review of a workers’ compensation order by which a claim for lump sum payment of rehabilitation benefits, to be used to purchase a dump truck in order to establish claimant in a new business enterprise, was denied. We conclude that the judge of compensation claims properly construed the rehabilitation provisions of chapter 440 as not encompassing the requested capital expenditure, and we therefore affirm the order appealed.

While working as a long-haul truck driver, the 43-year-old claimant sustained com-pensable industrial injuries in 1985 and 1986. As a result…