MCDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION AND TGO CLAIMS SERVICE, INC., APPELLANTS,
v.
DENNIS MCDONALD, APPELLEE

Fla. 1st DCA | 1993-07-13
No. 92-1834
Zehmer, J., Barfield, J., Mickle, J.
620 So. 2d 1146 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (1993) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

The court affirmed the workers' compensation judge's award of temporary total and partial disability benefits, medical bills, and attorney's fees to the employee, modifying only the language regarding the duration of future temporary partial disability benefits.


Holding

The workers' compensation judge properly awarded temporary total disability, temporary partial disability, medical bills, and attorney's fees, with the duration of future temporary partial disability benefits limited to the date of hearing and continuing only so long as proper.


Headnotes

[1] The duration of future temporary partial disability benefits in workers' compensation cases must be limited to the date of hearing and for so long as such benefits are pr…

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Facts & Procedural History

An employee (McDonald) was injured and sought workers' compensation benefits from his employer/carrier (McDonnell Douglas Corporation and TGO Claims S…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

The Employer/Carrier (“E/C”) appeal the order of the Judge of Compensation Claims (“JCC”) awarding temporary total disability and temporary partial disability benefits, payment of medical bills, uncontested taxable costs, and attorney’s fees. Finding competent substantial evidence to support the order, we affirm. However, it is necessary to strike the decretal portion of the order awarding future temporary partial disability benefits “through the present and continuing,” and to substitute the following: “to the date of the hearing and for so long as such benefits are proper.” Rodeway Inn v. Bryant, 615 So. 2d 857, 858 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993); Workman v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 590 So. 2d 1035 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991); Wiley Jackson Co. v. Webster, 522 So. 2d 987 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988).

We find no merit to the E/C s argument that the JCC applied the wrong legal test to determine Claimant’s entitlement to benefits. See Turner v. G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital, 600 So. 2d 1153 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992); Curtis v. Bordo Citrus Prods., 566 So. 2d 328 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990); Spaulding v. Albertson’s, 543 So. 2d 858 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989); Koulias v. Tarpon Marine Ways, 538 So. 2d 130 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989); Central Concrete Co., Inc. v. Harris, 475 So. 2d 1300 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).

AFFIRMED as modified.

ZEHMER, BARFIELD and MICKLE, JJ., concur.


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