STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE v. ALLEN

No. 96-1685.

692 So.2d 230 (1997)

STATE of Florida/DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE and Florida Department of Insurance/Bureau of State Employees' Workers' Compensation Claims, Appellants, v. Donald L. ALLEN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 14, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Malone of Patrick J. Malone, P.A., Jupiter, for Appellants.

Debra H. Pierce of Lloyd, Hoskins & Pierce, P.A., Fort Pierce, for Appellee.


BARFIELD, Chief Judge.

In this workers' compensation order, the judge of compensation claims (JCC) apparently misconstrued Pinellas County School Board v. Higgins, 597 So.2d 355 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992). In the case at issue, the claimant was injured in successive compensable accidents while working for the same employer and the second accident exacerbated the injury from the first accident. The employer and carrier (E/C) calculated...

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