Workers' Compensation

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Honeycutt v. Boswell Voyle Appliances

522 So.2d 937, 13 Fla. L. Week. 686, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Mar 15, 1988)

Deputy commissioner did not have the discretion to reject the treating psychiatrist unrefuted testimony that the claimant has not yet reached MMI with the respect to psychiatric injuries. Orthopedic surgeon testified that the claimant could perform light sedentary work but this testimony did not conflict with the testimony regarding psychiatric disability. Accordingly the deputy commissioner did not have the discretion to choose one doctor's testimony over the others.Court determined that deputy commissioner erred in finding MMI. Orthopedically the claimant was at MMI but psychiatrically he was not. It was error to consider entitlement to wage loss where MMI had not been reached.