CERTIFIED GROCERS v. OPEL

No. AM-427.

430 So.2d 953 (1983)

CERTIFIED GROCERS and Corporate Group Service, Inc., Appellants, v. Ronald OPEL, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 27, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack A. Langdon of Jones & Langdon, P.A., Gainesville, for appellants.

Seymour H. Rowland, Jr., Ocala, for appellee.


MILLS, Judge.

The employer/carrier in this workers' compensation case seeks review of the deputy commissioner's order which awarded wage loss benefits and attorney's fees to Opel. Because Opel failed to prove that his wage loss was the result of his injury and because the award of attorney's fees was premature, we reverse.

Opel sustained an injury to his back arising out of and in the course of his employment with Certified Grocers on 31 July 1980. After receiving...

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