GREAT DANE TRAILERS v. FLIS

No. AP-483.

435 So.2d 931 (1983)

GREAT DANE TRAILERS and Jones, Hill & Mercer, Appellants, v. Langene FLIS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

July 29, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B.C. Pyle of Whittaker, Pyle, Stump & Webster, P.A., Orlando, for appellants.

Herbert H. Hall, Jr., and Ronald J. Langa of Maher, Overchuck, Langa, Cate, Lobb & Webb, Orlando, for appellee.


ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.

In October 1980, while lifting the heavy fork of his employer's forklift in the course of his employment, this claimant, then aged 62, injured his back. The employer and carrier recognized that claimant's back injury arose out of and in the course of his employment, § 440.09(1), Fla. Stat. (1980 Supp.), and began paying benefits appropriate for that injury and claimant's resulting disability...

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