Opinion ID: 2621671
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: a claimant's temporary total disability award stands subject to expiration or to judicially imposed sooner termination

Text: ¶ 19 A TTD award, no longer subject to appellate re-examination, stands subject to expiration, earlier judicial termination or to the tribunal's extension beyond the earlier period. Oklahoma statutes provide a comprehensive scheme which governs the procedure for award, continuation, expiration and termination of TTD benefits. These enactments are to be read in conjunction with § 1.1(B) which places the burden of proof on the party requesting benefits or relief ... [39] It is within this statutory ambit that we find resolution of the second issuethat of which party is to bear here the burden of proof for termination of TTD benefits granted by the April 2001 order. A.