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AMERICAN BANKERS INS. CO. v. LITTLE

Nos. 56816, 57851.

393 So.2d 1063 (1980)

AMERICAN BANKERS INSURANCE CO., Continental Insurance Company, Petitioners, v. Vella LITTLE, rESPONDENT. Joseph J. NEUMAN, Petitioner, v. Joe Patti SEAFOOD, Incorporated, and Auto-Owners Insurance Company and Industrial Relations Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied March 9, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell A. Ortmayer of Marlow, Shofi, Ortmayer, Smith, Connell & Valerius, Miami, for American Bankers Ins. Co.

William R. Davenport, Gulf Breeze, for Joseph J. Neuman.

Joseph J. Finkelstein of Pelzner, Schwedock & Finkelstein, P.A., Miami, for Vella Little.

William H. Clark of Clark, Partington, Hart & Hart, Pensacola, for Joe Patti Seafood, Inc., Auto-Owners Ins. Co. and Industrial Relations Commission.

ENGLAND, Justice.

These cases arise from a 1973 amendment to Florida's workmen's compensation law, section 440.15(10) of the Florida Statutes, permitting Florida employers and carriers to offset their disability payments by the amount of an injured employee's weekly federal social security benefits. This legislation was prompted by a 1965 amendment to the federal Social Security Act which allows the states to claim an offset for federal disability payments, but in...

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