Court Tosses Employer's Challenge to Award of Attorney Fees

Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal ruled that an employer could not challenge a worker’s award of attorney fees for successfully defeating the employer’s fraud defense. Case: Levy County Transit v. Kokenzie, No. 1D17-3098, 12/21/2017, published. Facts and procedural history: Antoinette Kokenzie worked for Levy County Transit and allegedly injured her neck while at work in March 2015. LCT initially accepted her injury as compensable and authorized medical treatment with Dr. Troy Trimble. After Trimble opined that the major contributing cause of Kokenzie’s neck pr...