Case Name: WEST FLORIDA DISTRIBUTORS, INC. and Chubbs Group, Appellants, v. Anderson JOHNSON, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-03-15
Citations: 410 So. 2d 987
Docket Number: No. AD-359
Parties: WEST FLORIDA DISTRIBUTORS, INC. and Chubbs Group, Appellants, v. Anderson JOHNSON, Appellee.
Judges: ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., C. J., and McCORD and BOOTH, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 410
Pages: 987–988

Head Matter:
WEST FLORIDA DISTRIBUTORS, INC. and Chubbs Group, Appellants, v. Anderson JOHNSON, Appellee.
No. AD-359.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 15, 1982.
J. Nixon Daniel, III, of Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, for appellants.
Roderic G. Magie, of Levin, Warfield, Middlebrooks, Mabie & Magie, P. A., Pensacola, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The award of an attorney's fee to claimant's counsel is REVERSED because there was no outstanding contest of compensability at the time the services were rendered, that having previously been finally determined by the deputy's prior order finding the accident compensable and awarding counsel a fee. Section 440.34(2)(c), Florida Statutes (1979). No other ground for awarding a fee was urged to the deputy. Contrast Florida Erection Services, Inc. v. McDonald, 395 So.2d 203 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981).
ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., C. J., and McCORD and BOOTH, JJ., concur.