Court Opinion

ID: 9860073
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 23:09:17.615965+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:17:40.258033
License: Public Domain

LUND, J., concurs. JUSTICE GREEN, specially concurring: I concur in the decision of the majority to modify the award and, as modified, to affirm it. I agree that a judgment of the circuit court for attorney fees cannot properly include sums for attorney fees in a workers’ compensation proceeding which has not been approved by the Commission. However, the circuit court has jurisdiction of proceedings for recovery of attorney fees in general. I do not agree that a part of a judgment in such a case is void for lack of jurisdiction because consideration was improperly given to work performed in a workers’ compensation proceeding in support of a portion of the award requested. While the issue of the impropriety of consideration of the work in the workers’ compensation proceeding was not raised below, plaintiff does not argue here that such error was waived. I conclude we may properly consider the propriety of the portion of the award in question without holding that a portion of the judgment was void for lack of jurisdiction.