Gleaton v. Hazelwood Farms, Inc.

Blackburn, Judge.

This dispute concerns the apportionment of attorney fees he-neen former and present attorneys representing employee, Jacquelyn rleaton, in a workers’ compensation claim.

The record reflects that former attorney Alvin L. Kendall resented his client with a $15,000 employer’s settlement offer at a me after his fee contract had been approved by the State Board of Workers’ Compensation (Board). In doing so, he indicated that this as the employer’s final offer. Thereafter, the employee discharged Kendall and hired present attorney Stephen Lerner, and Lerner’s fee jreement was mailed…