Case Name: FOWLER HARVESTING and Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Willie THOMPSON, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-03-05
Citations: 394 So. 2d 1086
Docket Number: No. WW-297
Parties: FOWLER HARVESTING and Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Willie THOMPSON, Appellee.
Judges: BOOTH and JOANOS, JJ., and PEARSON, TILLMAN (Retired), Associate Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 394
Pages: 1086–1087

Head Matter:
FOWLER HARVESTING and Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Willie THOMPSON, Appellee.
No. WW-297.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 5, 1981.
Herbert A. Langston, Jr., and James M. Hess, of Driscoll, Langston, Layton & Kane, P. A., Orlando, for appellants.
Jesse F. Sparks, Jr., Orlando, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The deputy commissioner ordered that appellee be paid temporary, total disability benefits until he reached maximum medical improvement. We amend the order to state that TTD benefits should continue until ap-pellee achieves MMI or is able to return to work. A claimant need not have reached MMI to cease being eligible for TTD benefits. National Airlines v. Rowley, 9 FCR 262 (1975); Publix Supermarkets v. Fitzhugh, 8 FCR 250, cert. denied, 294 So.2d 661 (Fla.1974).
The order appealed from is otherwise AFFIRMED.
BOOTH and JOANOS, JJ., and PEARSON, TILLMAN (Retired), Associate Judge, concur.