Henry Diaz v. Palmetto General Hospital

This complex workers’ compensation case is before this Court for review of the decision of the First District Court of Appeal in Diaz v. Palmetto General Hospital/Sedgwick CMS, 146 So.3d 1288 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014), concerning a $13.28 hourly fee award for 120 hours of work deemed to be necessarily and reasonably expended by the claimant’s attorney. The judge of compensation claims found' the $13.28 hourly fee — over twenty-five -times less than the $350 hourly rate found to be a reasonable fee — “patently unreasonable” and stated that the claimant would not have recovered the $8,956.44 in total…