Opinion ID: 1798503
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Heading: American Bankers Insurance Co. v. Little

Text: Vella Little was permanently and totally disabled in 1966. At the time her average weekly wage [3] was $58.84, of which amount she was entitled to receive no more than eighty percent in combined federal social security and state workmen's compensation benefits, or $47.07 per week. After the enactment of section 440.15(10), American Bankers, the employer's carrier, learned that Little was receiving social security payments of $47.03 per week, and claimed an offset of that amount against their liability. This reduced her compensation payments to $.04 per week. Little does not dispute these computations but asserts that her aggregate benefits were in fact reduced by the offset, because the Social Security Administration had failed to claim the offset to which it was entitled for American Bankers' disability payments during the period of time prior to the enactment of section 440.15(10).