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CIRCLE-K STORES, INC./ Constitution State Services Company, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Emerita FLORES-ORELLANA, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.
    CASE NO. 1D16-1715
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Opinion filed August 21, 2017
    H. George Kagan of Miller, Kagan, Rodriguez & Silver, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Appellants/Cross Appellees.
    Mark L. Zientz of Law Offices of Mark L. Zientz, P.A., Miami, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.
   PER CURIAM.

In this workers’ compensation case, the Employer/Servicing Agent (E/SA) appeal an order of the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) awarding Claimant E/SA-paid attorney’s fees and costs based on Claimant’s success in a proceeding for modification. Claimant cross-appeals the JCC’s determination of the attorney fee amount and denial of a separate attorney’s fee for establishing fee entitlement. We affirm the issue on appeal, as well as the denial of a separate attorney’s fee challenged in the cross-appeal. However, we reverse and remand for a re-calculation of the fee amount because the JCC erred by calculating it using a discount factor based on evidence outside of the record. See § 440.34(1), Florida Statutes (2009).

AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART; and REMANDED.

ROWE, OSTERHAUS, and WINOKUR, JJ., CONCUR.