Newport Industries v. Mathis

THOMPSON, Judge.

The employer/carrier (E/C) appeal a workers’ compensation order awarding permanent total disability (PTD) benefits. The E/C contend that claimant has not suffered any change in condition which would warrant modification of a prior compensation order to award permanent total disability benefits, and that claimant has failed to conduct a good faith work search, a prerequisite to an award of PTD benefits in the absence of medical evidence of total inability to work. We find that there was sufficient competent substantial evidence to support the deputy’s determination that…