GATES ENERGY PRODUCTS v. LONG

No. 90-1699.

580 So.2d 879 (1991)

GATES ENERGY PRODUCTS and Scott Wetzel Services, Inc., Appellants, v. Jimmie LONG, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied July 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Donald and Edward T. LeFever of Haas, Boehm, Brown, Ridgon & Seacrest, P.A., Ft. Myers, for appellants.

Gary L. Fernandes, Gainesville, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The employer and carrier appeal from a final order awarding various compensation benefits. We affirm except with respect to the award of attorney's fees.

According to the order, the basis of the fee award was bad faith on the part of the E/C. Although claimant had made a claim for attorney's fees from the outset, at no time did claimant make explicit that the claim was grounded on bad faith. There was no forthright assertions of bad faith, nor...

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