DON Mac GOLF SHAPING COMPANY, INC. v. Register

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Charles Register was injured while working for Don Mac Golf Shaping Company, Inc., on May 11, 1985, and subsequently was awarded workers’ compensation benefits. In that award of March 31, 1986, after finding that the employer had no reasonable grounds for not timely paying the claim and thus necessitated Register’s engaging an attorney to enforce his rights, the administrative law judge assessed attorney fees against the employer in an amount equal to 25 percent of the income benefits recoverable by Register. This award was never appealed.

Shortly before the ALJ’s award…