CENTRAL MAINTENANCE & WELDING v. SIMMONS

No. 92-1468.

621 So.2d 514 (1993)

CENTRAL MAINTENANCE & WELDING and Auto Owners Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Arthur SIMMONS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

July 7, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith J. Flanders, Lane, Trohn, Clarke, Bertrand, Vreeland & Jacobsen, P.A., Lakeland, for appellants.

Susan W. Fox, MacFarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, H. Guy Smith, Lakeland, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

In this workers' compensation case, the employer and carrier seek review of an order awarding a fee to claimant's attorney based upon findings that the carrier had acted in bad faith in four discrete instances. We reverse.

Claimant sustained a compensable injury in August 1988. He was ultimately voluntarily accepted by the carrier as permanently and totally disabled in June 1991, some six weeks after he had filed his claim requesting such benefits...

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