Opinion

Jackson v. Alachua County School Board

  • 389 So. 2d 1244
  • 1980 Fla. App. LEXIS 18065
Court
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Filed
Nov 13, 1980
Status
Published
Author
Smith
On the bench
Booth, Shaw, Smith
Cited by
1 cases

The opinion

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge,

concurring in part and dissenting in part:

I concur in the court’s decision on the cross-appeal holding as a matter of law that retirement benefits which had not vested should not be included in computing the claimant’s average weekly wage. I disagree with the court’s decision that the claimant performed a sufficiently diligent work search to demonstrate his entitlement to disability benefits for a wage earning capacity loss exceeding his anatomical disability. I think the court reaches this factual conclusion by reevaluating the persuasiveness of claimant’s testimony and discounting evidence and legitimate inferences from evidence which led the deputy commissioner to a contrary finding that

. . . the claimant has failed to demonstrate any greater degree of disability from a diminution of wage earning capacity standpoint than the anatomical rating.

On this issue I would sustain the deputy.

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