BIRTH-RELATED N. INJURY COMP. v. CARRERAS

No. 92-1384.

633 So.2d 1103 (1994)

FLORIDA BIRTH-RELATED NEUROLOGICAL INJURY COMPENSATION ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. Maria Theodora CARRERAS, a minor, and Flor Carreras, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied March 22, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor, Brion, Buker & Greene and Wilbur E. Brewton and Kelly Brewton Plante, Tallahassee, for appellant.

James C. Blecke, Miami, for appellees.

Before COPE, LEVY and GODERICH, JJ.


COPE, Judge.

The Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association (NICA)1 appeals from a final order of the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) awarding the claimants attorney's fees in the amount of $90,000. We reverse.

Flor Carreras' daughter, Maria Carreras, was born with severe brain damage. Ms. Carreras' counsel filed a petition for compensation under the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation...

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