SUNLAND HOSPITAL/STATE OF FLA. v. GARRETT

No. AG-422.

415 So.2d 783 (1982)

SUNLAND HOSPITAL/STATE OF FLORIDA, and Division of Risk Management, Appellants, v. Thomas GARRETT, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied July 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. Zimmerman, Michael M. O'Brien, and William G. Berzak, of Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, Orlando, for appellants.

Joseph H. Williams of Troutman, Parrish & Williams, P.A., Winter Park, and John F. Wilhelm, Orlando, for appellee.


ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Chief Judge.

Sometimes, in workers' compensation cases, complex legal issues have a way of attracting attention only after the deputy has entered a compensation order and the order has been appealed. Here, after briefing and oral argument, we were left to ponder a sticky legal question concerning the deputy's award of 75% permanent partial disability benefits, based on loss of wage earning capacity, to a worker who hurt his previously vulnerable...

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