Case Name: Manuel R. YANES, Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL GAS CORP. and Florida Unemployment Appeals Commission, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1993-04-27
Citations: 617 So. 2d 778
Docket Number: No. 92-2171
Parties: Manuel R. YANES, Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL GAS CORP. and Florida Unemployment Appeals Commission, Appellees.
Judges: Before NESBITT, FERGUSON and COPE, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 617
Pages: 778–779

Head Matter:
Manuel R. YANES, Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL GAS CORP. and Florida Unemployment Appeals Commission, Appellees.
No. 92-2171.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 27, 1993.
Honey Hartman and Eliot W. Rifkin, Miami, for appellant.
John D. Maher, Tallahassee, for Unemployment Appeals Com’n.
Before NESBITT, FERGUSON and COPE, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Based on an examination of the record and the Florida Unemployment Appeals Commission's confession of error, we find that the record contains insufficient evidence to support the decision of the Commission's appeals referee that Manuel Yanes' initial appeal of the denial of his unemployment benefits to the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security, Division of Unemployment Compensation (Division), was untimely filed. Thus, the Division had jurisdiction to hear the merits of Yanes' claim, and the appeals referee erred in finding otherwise. Teater v. Department of Commerce Bd. of Review, 370 So.2d 847 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979). Accordingly, the order under review is reversed.