SPECIAL DISAB. TRUST v. GEORGE STUART, INC.

No. BF-124.

481 So.2d 59 (1985)

SPECIAL DISABILITY TRUST FUND, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, Appellant, v. GEORGE STUART, INCORPORATED, Employer, and Hartford Insurance Group, Carrier, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 23, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary E. Ingley, Special Disability Trust Fund, Tallahassee, for appellant.

John E. McLain, III, of Cooper, Rissman & Weisberg, Orlando, for appellees.


ERVIN, Judge.

The Special Disability Trust Fund (Fund) appeals from an order of the deputy commissioner, directing the Fund to reimburse appellee, employer/carrier (e/c), sixty percent of the wage-loss benefits paid by the latter to an employee having a preexisting permanent impairment. We reverse because the deputy's order retroactively applied the 1983 amendment to Section 440.15(3)(b)4, Florida Statutes,1 to the employee's work-related...

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