District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order in a workers' compensation case awarding claimant attorney's fees and costs is reversed in part where the JCC erred in ordering the payment of an attorney's fee which far exceeded the statutorily mandated percentage of the benefits awarded.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2007
• Published 02/05/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary Ann Stiles, Tampa, and Rayford H. Taylor, Atlanta, GA, of Stiles, Taylor & Grace, P.A., and Thomas A. Koval, Sarasota, for Amicus Curiae, Associated Industries of Florida, Inc. and Florida Insurance Council.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick John McGinley of Law Office of Patrick John McGinley, P.A., Winter Park, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees., Wayne W. Bilsky, Winter Park, and Bill McCabe, Longwood, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.