Windchy v. Friend

GRAVES, Justice.

The Special Fund appeals from an award of attorneys’ fees because the amount exceeds the statutory maximum. In 1993, the Administrative Law Judge awarded and the Court of Appeals later affirmed an attorneys’ fee of $45,488.46 even though the compensable injury occurred in 1988 when the applicable law permitted only $6,500 in attorneys’ fees. Fifty percent of the attorney’s fee is now payable by the Special Fund. Both the Workers’ Compensation Board and the Court of Appeals ruled that the Special Fund lacked standing to contest an award of attorneys’ fees. The Special Fund…