WEST FLORIDA DISTRIBUTORS, INC. v. JOHNSON

No. AD-359.

410 So.2d 987 (1982)

WEST FLORIDA DISTRIBUTORS, INC. and Chubbs Group, Appellants, v. Anderson JOHNSON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 15, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Nixon Daniel, III, of Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, for appellants.

Roderic G. Magie, of Levin, Warfield, Middlebrooks, Mabie & Magie, P.A., Pensacola, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The award of an attorney's fee to claimant's counsel is REVERSED because there was no outstanding contest of compensability at the time the services were rendered, that having previously been finally determined by the deputy's prior order finding the accident compensable and awarding counsel a fee. Section 440.34(2)(c), Florida Statutes (1979). No other ground for awarding a fee was urged to the deputy. Contrast Florida Erection Services, Inc. v. McDonald...

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