ESCAMBIA COUNTY BD. OF COM'RS v. PHIPPS

No. 89-233.

553 So.2d 269 (1989)

ESCAMBIA COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Gallagher Bassett and Ina/Aetna, Appellants, v. Ronald PHIPPS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas F. Miller of Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond, Stackhouse & Stone, Pensacola, and Michael J. Rudicell of Karl, McConnaughhay, Roland & Maida, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Thomas F. Condon of Mitchell & Condon, P.A., Pensacola, for appellee.


ZEHMER, Judge.

We review a workers' compensation order awarding a heated vinyl swimming pool for purposes of physical therapy to be installed at the claimant's residence at a cost not exceeding $8,600. The order explicitly found a medical need for hydrotherapy on a daily basis, stating as follows:

4. For a while the claimant went from his home in rural Santa Rosa County to the YMCA in Pensacola for water therapy. This is a thirty to forty mile journey by...

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