Case Name: C.L. WHITESIDE CONSTRUCTION CO., employer, and Risk Management Services, Inc., servicing agent, Appellants, v. John JOHNSON, employee, and Division of Workers' Compensation, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1983-10-19
Citations: 438 So. 2d 1081
Docket Number: No. AR-189
Parties: C.L. WHITESIDE CONSTRUCTION CO., employer, and Risk Management Services, Inc., servicing agent, Appellants, v. John JOHNSON, employee, and Division of Workers’ Compensation, Appellees.
Judges: ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr. and BOOTH, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 438
Pages: 1081–1082

Head Matter:
C.L. WHITESIDE CONSTRUCTION CO., employer, and Risk Management Services, Inc., servicing agent, Appellants, v. John JOHNSON, employee, and Division of Workers’ Compensation, Appellees.
No. AR-189.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Oct. 19, 1983.
H. George Kagan, of Miller, Hodges & Kagan, P.A., Miami, for appellants.
K.P. Jones, of Jones & Zaifert, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Johnson.

Opinion:
WIGGINTON, Judge.
The employer/carrier appeal the order of the deputy commissioner awarding claimant wage loss benefits for the months of May, June, July and August, 1982, and assessing penalties against the employer/carrier for those same months. The order also directed the employer/carrier to reinstitute rehabilitation efforts, both as to job placement and reeducation of claimant. That portion of the order has not been challenged.
We affirm the award of wage loss benefits and the assessment of penalties for June, July and August. However, the record indicates that the employer/carrier timely controverted the claim for wage loss for May. Therefore, we reverse the assessment of penalties for the late payment of May wage loss benefits, and the deputy commissioner's order is amended to that extent.
ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr. and BOOTH, JJ., concur.