Haile v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CONNOR, ERWIN and BOOCHEVER, JJ. BOOCHEVER, Justice.

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice, and ERWIN, Justice, concurring in part and dissenting in part.

The principal dispute in this appeal hinges on the question of whether the attorneys in these workmen’s compensation cases are entitled to a minimum attorney’s fee based on 25 percent of the first $1,000 of compensation awarded and 10 percent of all sums in excess thereof or, in the alternative, whether the Board was authorized to award a reasonable attorney’s fee without regard to such minimum provisions. In cases…