Taylor v. Fulmer-Orlando

SHIVERS, Judge.

The claimant in this workers’ compensation case appeals the sufficiency of a 1987 order awarding $12,500 in attorney’s fees based on the employer/carrier’s (E/C’s) bad faith failure to accept the claimant as permanently and totally disabled (PTD). The employer/carrier cross-appeal the deputy commissioner’s underlying finding of bad faith.

*1225We affirm the issue on cross appeal, finding there to be competent and substantial evidence in the record to support the deputy’s finding that the E/C’s failure to accept the claimant as PTD prior to the January 3, 1984 hearing on PTD benefits…