Okeechobee Health Care v. Collins

How courts have described this case

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• holding the statute authorizes no more than 104 weeks of temporary disability benefits
• holding temporary benefits cannot be paid for more than 104 weeks
• court turns first to the plain language of the statute to ascertain meaning, but also must consider subsections of the same statute in pari materia
• “[T]he Legislature intended to limit temporary disability benefits, whether payable under [section 440.15] subsection (2) or under subsection (4), to 104 weeks.”
• “A reviewing court properly defers on questions of statutory interpretation to the agency to which the Legislature has given the responsibility and authority to administer the statute, unless the interpretation is clearly erroneous.”

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