Case Name: ORANGE NEWS AND MISSION INSURANCE CO., Appellants, v. Mary PRICE, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1983-07-29
Citations: 435 So. 2d 933
Docket Number: No. AP-484
Parties: ORANGE NEWS AND MISSION INSURANCE CO., Appellants, v. Mary PRICE, Appellee.
Judges: SHIVERS and NIMMONS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 435
Pages: 933–934

Head Matter:
ORANGE NEWS AND MISSION INSURANCE CO., Appellants, v. Mary PRICE, Appellee.
No. AP-484.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
July 29, 1983.
Bernard J. Zimmerman and Paul J. Morgan of Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, Orlando, for appellants.
Thomas R. Mooney and Beth A. Ferguson of Meyers & Mooney, Orlando, for appellee.

Opinion:
ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.
The deputy's order awarding attorneys' fees for the carrier's "bad faith" handling of this claim, § 440.34(2)(b), Fla-Stat. (1979), is flawed by factual misstatements and implications that are not sustainable by any view of the record. The asserted cumulative effect of the several episodes relied upon as showing bad faith handling is therefore not as portrayed by the order appealed, and the award of attorneys' fees must be reversed. The parties agree that the deputy also erred in awarding wage loss benefits from October 30,1980, to February 28, 1981, those benefits having previously been paid. In all other respects the deputy's order of November 18, 1982, is to be affirmed.
AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part.
SHIVERS and NIMMONS, JJ., concur.