ELITE TILE & MARBLE v. BURNETT

No. 97-4913.

731 So.2d 725 (1999)

ELITE TILE & MARBLE and Associated Industries Insurance Company, Inc., Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Charles BURNETT, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied April 29, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Ann Stiles and Rayford H. Taylor of Stiles, Taylor & Grace, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Mitchell Leland Wyle and Ali Kirk Mashayekhi of Mitchell Leland Wyle, P.A., Orlando, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.


PER CURIAM.

We agree that the judge of compensation claims should have allowed the employer and carrier to utilize the maximum family benefit to calculate the applicable social security offset. We set out the formula for calculating a social security offset in Hunt v. Stratton, 677 So.2d 64 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996). We explained in Hunt that, to determine whether the preliminary offset amount exceeds the "offset which the...

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