Prestressed Decking Corp. v. Medrano

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Employer/carrier seek review of a workers’ compensation order by which an attorney’s fee was awarded. We find that the fee was properly denominated a bad faith *404award pursuant to section 440.34(3)(b), Florida Statutes, so as to be entirely excluded from recoupment in the carrier’s rate base, premium, or rate filing. We further find that the record contains an adequate predicate for the amount of the fee. In the circumstances of this case we find no improper anticipation or prejudgment in the deputy’s statement that the amount would be unchanged even should employer/carrier…