RONALD ALLEN TRUCKING CO. v. HELTON

No. AS-65.

449 So.2d 874 (1984)

RONALD ALLEN TRUCKING COMPANY and Utica Mutual Insurance Company, Appellants, v. James E. HELTON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied May 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret E. Sojourner of Haas, Boehm, Brown, Ridgon & Seacrest, Orlando, for appellants.

Jesse F. Sparks, Orlando, for appellee.


THOMPSON, Judge.

The employer/carrier (E/C) appeal from a workers' compensation order awarding permanent total disability (PTD) benefits. We agree with the E/C's contention that claimant should not have been awarded PTD benefits, and reverse.

Claimant is a 43-year-old man with a sixth grade education whose work experience has been limited to truck driving and other types of fairly strenuous physical labor. Shortly after claimant's October 27, 1980 compensable...

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