Munford, Inc. v. West

WIGGINTON, Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation appeal from an order of the deputy commissioner awarding West permanent total disability benefits. We affirm.

The record clearly reveals substantial competent evidence of a good faith work search by claimant. Contrary to employer/carrier’s position, those places of employment investigated by claimant all offered the possibility of light work. Considering claimant’s age of 61 years, his array of disabilities (arteriosclerosis; hypertension; hearing loss; arthritis), coupled with the limitations placed on him by his physician, the deputy’s finding…