Case Name: PLYMOUTH CITRUS PRODUCTS and Corporate Group Service, Appellants, v. Sarah WOODARD, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1984-05-22
Citations: 450 So. 2d 317
Docket Number: No. AU-496
Parties: PLYMOUTH CITRUS PRODUCTS and Corporate Group Service, Appellants, v. Sarah WOODARD, Appellee.
Judges: ZEHMER, J. concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 450
Pages: 317–318

Head Matter:
PLYMOUTH CITRUS PRODUCTS and Corporate Group Service, Appellants, v. Sarah WOODARD, Appellee.
No. AU-496.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
May 22, 1984.
James B. Cantrell of Sparks, Cooper & Leklem, P.A., Orlando, for appellants.
Edward H. Hurt of Hurt & Parrish, and Bill McCabe of Shepherd, McCabe & Cooley, Orlando, for appellee.

Opinion:
BARFIELD, Judge.
In this workers' compensation case the employer appeals the deputy commissioner's final order awarding wage-loss benefits to claimant from April 13, 1983 to July 1, 1983 and awarding costs. We reverse.
Claimant sustained a work-related injury in December 1981. Her job in the canning industry was seasonal and subject to layoffs. The period for which wage-loss benefits were awarded in this case occurred during one such layoff. Although the deputy commissioner found that claimant had made an adequate job search during the period for which wage-loss benefits were claimed, he did not make a specific finding that claimant had satisfied her burden of establishing that the wage-loss was the result of the compensable injury. There is no competent substantial evidence in the record to support such a finding.
The order of the deputy commissioner dated August 12, 1983 is REVERSED.
ZEHMER, J. concurs.
WENTWORTH, J., concurs specially with an opinion in which ZEHMER, J., concurs.