FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY GROUP v. FAIRHURST

No. XX-448.

405 So.2d 438 (1981)

FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY GROUP, Continental Insurance Companies, and Underwriters Adjusting Company, Appellants, v. Armand FAIRHURST, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied November 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Mason, Jr., Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, P.A., Tampa, for appellants.

Maureen Emmet-Miller, Watson, Goldstein, Earle, Douglass & Dubbeld, St. Petersburg, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Upon consideration, we have concluded that the carrier's payment on January 4, 1978 of interest on compensation payable under a worker's compensation order should be deemed "compensation" within the meaning of that term as used in the two year statute of limitations provision of Section 440.19(2)(b), Florida Statutes (1979). In so deciding we follow the rationale of Lockett v. Smith, 72 So.2d 817 (Fla. 1954),...

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