ROBERT & COMPANY ASSOCIATES v. ZABAWCZUK

Nos. 36133, 36136.

200 So.2d 802 (1967)

ROBERT & COMPANY ASSOCIATES and Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Petitioners, v. John ZABAWCZUK and Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents. John ZABAWCZUK, Petitioner, v. ROBERT & COMPANY ASSOCIATES, Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York and Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 28, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.O. Palmero, of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings, Glos & Evans, Tampa, for Robert & Company Associates and Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York, petitioners, respondents.

William M. Holt, Law Offices of John A. Chilldon, Tampa, for John Zabawczuk, respondent, petitioner.

Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for Florida Industrial Commission, respondent.


DREW, Justice.

The principal contentions upon petitions for certiorari in this workmen's compensation proceeding concern the awarding of attorney's fees of $6500, an award of expert witness' fees for attorneys testifying for the claimant's attorney, and the question of whether nursing care should have been awarded.

While the amount of fees may be debatable, we find that the record supports the amount of the award and that the basis on which the fee was arrived...

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