EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S HOME, ETC. v. FORTUNA

No. AF-175.

414 So.2d 1130 (1982)

The EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S HOME & NURSERY, INC., and Insurance Company of North America, Appellants, v. Madeline FORTUNA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. George Kagan, Miller, Hodges & Kagan, Miami, for appellants.

Mark J. Feldman, Miami, for appellee.


LARRY G. SMITH, Judge.

The employer/carrier appeal an order awarding claimant attorney's fees pursuant to Section 440.34(2), Florida Statutes (1979). The deputy commissioner determined that the carrier's handling of the claim was improper in four separate instances: (1) the carrier delayed too long the payment of claimant's hospital bill in the amount of $19,569.76; (2) the carrier delayed too long the payment of attendant care services performed by the claimant's...

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