Orange State Marine v. Snack

MILLS, Chief Judge.

Orange State Marine, the employer, and Reliance Insurance Company, the carrier, *1368appeal from an award of attorney’s fees by the Judge of Industrial Claims in a workers’ compensation case. We affirm.

After Walter Snack, the employee, filed a claim and an application for a hearing, the employer-carrier deposed him. Subsequently, a second application for hearing was filed and a second deposition was taken by the employer-carrier. At the time the depositions were taken, the claim had not been controverted nor had 21 days passed without payment. Thereafter, claim for compensation…