Eckert v. Publix Supermarkets, Inc.

In this workers’ compensation appeal, the claimant, Charles T. Eckert, appeals an order of the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) granting the motion of the employer/carrier, Publix Supermarkets, Inc. and Specialty Risk Services, Inc., ap-pellees, to compel Eckert to attend a vocational evaluation. Finding that the statutory preconditions of section 440.491(6)(a), Florida Statutes (1999) for obtaining a vocational evaluation were not met, we reverse.

Eckert was injured while working as a meat cutter for Publix on November 22, 1986 and was accepted as permanently totally disabled (PTD)…