STATE, DEPT. OF AGR., ETC. v. HANDY

No. AH-25.

413 So.2d 808 (1982)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES and Allied Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Kenneth Vernon HANDY and the Division of Workers' Compensation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Summers Warden, Miami, for appellants.

Mark L. Zientz, of Williams & Zientz, Coral Gables, for appellees.


THOMPSON, Judge.

The employer and carrier (E/C) appeal a workers' compensation order, contending that the Deputy Commissioner (Deputy) erred: (1) in denying the E/C's petition for modification of a prior order awarding nursing services and (2) in awarding claimant's attorney an excessive fee for his services in resisting the petition for modification. We agree that the Deputy erred in these respects, and that his order requires modification.

In 1973 claimant...

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