Case Name: James A. FLOWERS, Appellant, v. ACOUSTI ENGINEERING COMPANY OF FLORIDA and Commercial Risk Management, Inc., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2004-12-10
Citations: 888 So. 2d 735
Docket Number: No. 1D03-0619
Parties: James A. FLOWERS, Appellant, v. ACOUSTI ENGINEERING COMPANY OF FLORIDA and Commercial Risk Management, Inc., Appellees.
Judges: BROWNING, LEWIS and POLSTON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 888
Pages: 735–735

Head Matter:
James A. FLOWERS, Appellant, v. ACOUSTI ENGINEERING COMPANY OF FLORIDA and Commercial Risk Management, Inc., Appellees.
No. 1D03-0619.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Dec. 10, 2004.
T. Rhett Smith and Teresa E. Liles, of T. Rhett Smith, P.A., Pensacola, for Appellant.
Roderic G. Magie, Pensacola, for Appel-lees.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Reviewing de novo the interpretation of section 440.14(l)(a) & (l)(d), Florida Statutes (1987), which is a question of law, see BellSouth Telecomm, Inc. v. Meeks, 868 So.2d 287, 289 (Fla.2003), we conclude that the Judge of Compensation Claims correctly construed the statute in using Appellant/Claimant's average weekly wage "at the time of the injury," — i.e., the date of his 1988 industrial accident rather than the 2001 date when he was determined to be permanently, totally disabled — as the proper basis for computing compensation. See James v. Armstrong World Indus., Inc., 864 So.2d 1132 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003); Karnes v. City of Boca Raton, 858 So.2d 1264 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003).
AFFIRMED.
BROWNING, LEWIS and POLSTON, JJ., concur.