BUSSEY v. WAL-MART STORE # 725

No. 1D02-4804.

867 So.2d 542 (2004)

Mary BUSSEY, Appellant, v. WAL-MART STORE # 725 and Integrated Administrators, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

February 27, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nora Leto of Kaylor & Kaylor, Winter Haven, for Appellant.

Thomas P. Vecchio of Ross, Vecchio, & Trussell, P.A., Lakeland, for Appellees.


KAHN, J.

In this case we are asked to decide whether failure of an employer/carrier (E/C) to respond within 134 days to a section 440.192(8) petition for workers' compensation benefits waives the E/C's right to later contest the injured employee's entitlement to particular requested benefits. We affirm because no such waiver occurred.

Claimant, Mary Bussey, worked for Wal-Mart as a cashier. On November 17, 2001, claimant fell at work and broke her wrist while...

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