Case Name: BELL RENTALS AND SALES and Travelers Insurance Company, Appellants, v. John HARVEY and Gulf American Fire & Casualty Company, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-10-30
Citations: 405 So. 2d 289
Docket Number: No. YY-312
Parties: BELL RENTALS AND SALES and Travelers Insurance Company, Appellants, v. John HARVEY and Gulf American Fire & Casualty Company, Appellees.
Judges: ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., C.J., and McCORD, ERVIN, BOOTH, LARRY G. SMITH, SHIVERS, SHAW, WENT-WORTH, JOANOS and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 405
Pages: 289–290

Head Matter:
BELL RENTALS AND SALES and Travelers Insurance Company, Appellants, v. John HARVEY and Gulf American Fire & Casualty Company, Appellees.
No. YY-312.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Oct. 30, 1981.
Robert G. Brightman, Orlando, for appellants.
Thomas R. Mooney of Meyers, Mooney & Adler, P. A.; Robert C. Barrett of Aker-man, Senterfitt & Eidson, Orlando, for ap-pellees.

Opinion:
MILLS, Judge.
This is the second appearance of this workers' compensation case here.
Bell and Travelers contend the deputy erred in failing to find that claimant reached maximum medical improvement after his second accident and in ordering them to provide further medical treatment. We disagree and affirm.
In his first order appealed here, Bell, et al. v. Harvey, 387 So.2d 507 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980), the deputy did not rule on maximum medical improvement following the second accident. Bell and Travelers did not urge this as error. They may not do this now. The deputy's initial order awarded remedial treatment. We affirmed this holding of the deputy. Bell and Travelers did not challenge the deputy's holding or our opinion. It may not do so now. Brevard Board of County Commissioners v. Caldwell, 379 So.2d 1031 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980).
In the prior Bell case, we held that medical costs are never apportionable between carriers. We recede from that opinion because before and after the prior Bell case we held that medical costs may be apportioned between carriers. This we reaffirm. Rowe and Mitchell v. Rodgers, 378 So.2d 1281 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979); The Seasons from Sarasota v. O'Day, 379 So.2d 1024 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980); and Neff, et al. v. Bretts, et al., 404 So.2d 416 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981).
AFFIRMED.
ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., C.J., and McCORD, ERVIN, BOOTH, LARRY G. SMITH, SHIVERS, SHAW, WENT-WORTH, JOANOS and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.