Court Opinion

ID: 9795325
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:26:16.354982+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:34.038257
License: Public Domain

OPALA, J.,
with whom LAVENDER and KAUGER, JJ., join, concurring in result
While I join as legally sound the court's holding that judicial recognition of need for medical treatment to be provided for a claimant previously adjudged to be permanently totally disabled does not in itself afford sufficient probative basis for granting such claimant an additional award of temporary total disability, I do not accede to the view that one who, like this claimant, is permanently totally disabled cannot, as a matter of law, ever qualify by proper medical proof for a finding of a change in his status to that of temporary total disability. See McClure v. Special Indemn. Fund, 1970 OK 194, 475 P.2d 811, 812.