Opinion
Case No. 96-1161
Opinion filed February 20, 1997.
An appeal from an order of the Judge of Compensation Claims Melanie Jacobson, Judge.
Manuel A. Fernandez, Miami, for Appellant.
Timothy M. Basquill of Beisler Beisler, West Palm Beach, for Appellees.
The amended order entered by the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) in this case properly awarded certain periods of wage loss to Appellant Gilberto Santiesteban. Because appellant was on notice that his doctors had placed him at maximum medical improvement, the JCC did not err in adjudicating the wage loss claims. Turner v. Rinker Materials, 622 So.2d 80 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993); Dailey v. General Accounting Machs., 411 So.2d 1030 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982). Also the JCC properly followedWinn Dixie v. Resnikoff, 659 So.2d 1299 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995) in which this court recognized that "the eligibility schedule [for wage loss] under section 440.15(3)(b)4.d. applies only as a cumulative limitation on the total number of weeks for which the claimant may be entitled to wage loss benefits."
AFFIRMED.
BARFIELD, C.J., ERVIN and KAHN, JJ., CONCUR.