RECON PAVING, INC. v. COOK

No. AQ-239.

439 So.2d 1019 (1983)

RECON PAVING, INC. and General Accident Group, Appellants, v. Ralph D. COOK, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Santry of Field, Granger, Santry & Mitchell, P.A., Tallahassee, for appellants.

P. Kevin Davey of Douglass, Davey, Cooper & Coppins, Tallahassee, for appellee.


ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.

The principal contention on this appeal by the employer and carrier is that chapter 82-237, Laws of Fla., section 440.15(3)(a)1, Fla. Stat. (1982 Supp.), unconstitutionally impairs the obligation of a contract setting claimant's compensation by statutes in effect when claimant was injured in 1981. Art. I, sec. 10, Fla. Const. That is so, appellants urge, because the act retroactively increased the permanent impairment dollars payable to...

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