406 So. 2d 1291 | Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | 1981
Employer/Carrier appeal from a workers’ compensation order awarding claimant temporary total disability benefits from January 14, 1980, through the continuance of claimant’s temporary total disability. We affirm all aspects of the order except the award of temporary total disability benefits for the time period between January 14, 1980, and April 8, 1980.
There is no record evidence, other than the claimant’s testimony, showing she was temporarily and totally disabled between January 14 and April 8, 1980. The treating physician testified that he did not examine or treat the claimant between October 1979 and April 8, 1980, the date the claimant returned for treatment. He also testified that claimant had not obtained and utilized the traction apparatus that he had recommended in October 1979 when she returned to him on April 8,1980. Although claimant did work for one week at a nursing home in early February 1980, her testi
AFFIRMED in part and REVERSED in part.