PRESTRESSED DECKING CORP. v. MEDRANO

No. 88-1950.

545 So.2d 403 (1989)

PRESTRESSED DECKING CORP. and Travelers Ins. Co., Appellants, v. Edgardo MEDRANO, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 9, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy A. Gladson, of Gladson & Sullivan, South Miami, for appellants.

Jerold Feuer, Miami, for appellee.


WENTWORTH, Judge.

Employer/carrier seek review of a workers' compensation order by which an attorney's fee was awarded. We find that the fee was properly denominated a bad faith award pursuant to section 440.34(3)(b), Florida Statutes, so as to be entirely excluded from recoupment in the carrier's rate base, premium, or rate filing. We further find that the record contains an adequate predicate for the amount of the fee...

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