COTE v. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC.

No. BL-39.

502 So.2d 500 (1987)

Lionel COTE, Appellant, v. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC., and Travelers Insurance Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

February 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Michael Matthews of Fisher & Matthews, Altamonte Springs, for appellant.

Thomas J. McDonald, The Travelers Insurance Co., Orlando, for appellees.


WENTWORTH, Judge.

Claimant seeks review of a workers' compensation order by which his average weekly wage and compensation rate for an occupational disease were determined as of the date of claimant's last injurious occupational exposure to asbestos. We find that these computations should have been made as of the date that disability commenced, and we therefore reverse the order appealed.

During his employment between 1969 and 1974 claimant was regularly exposed...

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