Cuccarollo v. Gulf Coast Building Contractors

The majority’s efforts to distinguish this court’s opinions in National Distillers v. Guthrie, 443 So.2d 354 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983) (Guthrie I); National Distillers v. Guthrie, 473 So.2d 806 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985) (Guthrie II); and Carpenters R.V. Service v. Eckert, 455 So.2d 590 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), from the present case are not in my judgment convincing. In both of the Guthrie cases the employer had argued that claimant’s reduction of income in a particular month was not caused by the claimant’s industrial injury, but was rather the result of the nature of the work required in the claimant’s…