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NORTH FLA. ERECTION INC. v. ABICHID

No. BO-230.

510 So.2d 1040 (1987)

NORTH FLORIDA ERECTION CO., INC., and Aetna Casualty and Surety, Appellants, v. ELI ABICHID, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

July 24, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa J. Hurley, of Haas, Boehm, Brown, Rigdon, Seacrest & Fischer, Orlando, for appellants.

Thomas Cassidy, Lakeland, and Bill McCabe, Orlando, co-counsel for appellee.

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Employer/carrier appeal a workers' compensation order by which an 80% lump sum advance of compensation payments was approved. We find that such approval was not in accordance with the applicable standards for lump sum payments, and we therefore reverse the order appealed.

Section 440.20(13)(d), Florida Statutes, permits a lump sum advance of compensation payments if such advance is shown to be in the claimant's "best interests." In the present...

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