R.D. BROWN CONTRACTORS v. PADGETT

No. 89-452.

569 So.2d 499 (1990)

R.D. BROWN CONTRACTORS and Cigna Property and Casualty Company, Appellants, v. Titus PADGETT, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied November 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Robinson, West Palm Beach, and Diane H. Tutt, Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Titus Padgett, pro se, for appellee.


SHIVERS, Chief Judge.

The employer/carrier appeal a workers' compensation order awarding temporary total disability (TTD) benefits from April 1, 1988, through January 19, 1989. We reverse.

In order to be entitled to TTD benefits the claimant in a workers' compensation case bears the burden of showing a lack of capacity to work by either: (1) producing medical evidence that he was unable to work, or (2) testing his...

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