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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RAYTHEON SERVICES and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Danny GENNA, Appellee.
    No. 98-4175.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Oct. 27, 1999.
    Kelly A. Cambrón of Moss, Henderson, Blanton & Lanier, P.A., Vero Beach; Elizabeth C. Wheeler of Wheeler & Wilkinson, LLP, Orlando, for appellants.
    Robert Gray, Melbourne; Bill McCabe, Longwood, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

In this workers’ compensation appeal, we affirm the award of permanent total disability benefits because it is supported by competent substantial evidence. However, we reverse the award of palliative neurological care and treatment because it is not supported by competent substantial evidence.

AFFIRMED IN PART and REVERSED IN PART.

BARFIELD, C.J. and WEBSTER, J., concur; BENTON, J., concurs in part and dissents in part with written opinion.

BENTON, J.,

concurring in part and dissenting in part.

The claimant did not prove that his industrial accident was the major contributing cause of the discogenic pain his physician testified would, in any event, permit him to do light work. The claimant was, moreover, repeatedly observed performing light work at the restaurant he and his wife own, where he sometimes spent as much as eight hours a day. I would reverse the award of permanent total disability benefits as well as the award of palliative care.