SMITH v. DIXIE PACKERS, INC.

No. PP-414.

384 So.2d 709 (1980)

Lisa E. SMITH, Appellant, v. DIXIE PACKERS, INC., and Crawford & Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied July 1, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Roderick Bowdoin of Darby, Peele, Page & Bowdoin, Lake City, for appellant.

Charles Vocelle of Brannon, Brown, Norris, Vocelle & Haley, Lake City, for appellees.


LARRY G. SMITH, Judge.

The sole issue in this worker's compensation appeal is whether the Judge of Industrial Claims was in error in denying an award of attorney's fees to the claimant's attorney. In denying attorney's fees, the Judge relied upon the carrier's acceptance of 100% disability of claimant's eye within twenty-one days after being advised of claimant's condition by letter from claimant's attorney, enclosing a report from the treating physician advising...

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