District Court of Appeal of Florida

A grant of benefits to a claimant in a workers' compensation case is reversed where a judge of compensation claims misconstrued the consequences of an employer and carrier's waiver of the right to deny compensability, and based the effectiveness of a denial on claimant's ability to understand his claim was denied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2006
• Published 05/22/2006

Judges

• HAWKES, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George A. Helm, III, Esquire, Lake Mary, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kelli Biferie, Esquire, Winter Park, and Bill McCabe, Esquire, Longwood, for Appellee.