SPECIAL DISABILITY TRUST FUND v. CURRENT

No. 95-3440.

668 So.2d 699 (1996)

SPECIAL DISABILITY TRUST FUND, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. CURRENT BUILDERS, HEWITT COLEMAN & ASSOCIATES and Lee Griffin, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

February 28, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Annemarie Craft, Special Disability Trust Fund, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Ava F. Tunstall of Dean, Ringers, Morgan & Lawton, Orlando, for appellees Current Builders and Hewitt Coleman & Associates; Lee Griffin, Pro Se.


KAHN, Judge.

The Special Disability Trust Fund appeals from a workers' compensation order in which the judge of compensation claims (JCC) awarded the claimant a lump sum settlement of $90,288.83 and required the Special Disability Trust Fund (Fund) to pay that amount directly to claimant. The Fund challenges the order on the basis that the JCC had no authority to require it to pay money directly to a claimant, and in any event the JCC never acquired jurisdiction over...

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