PUBLIC STORAGE v. GALANO

No. 1D04-1269.

894 So.2d 287 (2005)

PUBLIC STORAGE and Hartford Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Esmeralda GALANO, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied March 2, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Teitler and Warren Brown of Walton Lantaff Schroeder & Carson, LLP, Miami, for Appellants.

Martha D. Fornaris, Coral Gables, and Bill McCabe, Longwood, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

In this case, the trial court correctly found that appellants failed to deny compensability of appellee's workplace injury within 120 days "after the initial provision of benefits." § 440.20(4), Fla. Stat. (2002). Accordingly, appellants waived the right to deny compensability. See Hutchinson v. Lykes Smithfield Packing, 870 So.2d 144 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004). Where...

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