Lake Highland Nursing Home v. Everett

The Employer/Carrier appeal a workers’ compensation order which awarded claimant temporary total disability benefits. We find that the award of temporary total disability benefits is supported by substantial competent evidence.

Paragraph one of the decretal portion of the deputy’s order erroneously provides for payment of temporary total disability benefits until claimant shall have reached maximum medical improvement or shall have returned to gainful employment. There is no automatic relationship between temporary total disability and the achievement of maximum medical improvement, or the…