Fla. 1st Nixes $20K Award for Attorney's Fee

The Florida 1st District Court of Appeal overturned a $20,000 attorney fee award because it exceeded the percentage allowed attorneys under the workers' compensation law section 440.34. "Because the judge of compensation claims (JCC) in this case ordered the employer-servicing agent to pay an attorney's fee which far exceeded the statutorily mandated percentage of the benefits awarded, we reverse the portion of the order awarding claimant $20,500 in attorney's fees and remand for further proceedings," the court wrote in La Petite Academy and Gallagher Bassett v. Duprey, 1D05-3340, 02/05/20...