Halphen v. Western Contracting Corp.

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Claimant appeals a workers’ compensation order granting employer/carrier’s motion to vacate an order entered 19 days earlier approving a joint petition settlement. We affirm because the prior order had not become a final order under the terms of § 440.25(4)(f), Florida Statutes (1979), and no appeal had been taken. The deputy acted within his authority in vacating the prior order in these circumstances. Mills v. Laris Painting Co., 125 So.2d 745 (Fla.1961).

The deputy determined that the order should be set aside “in order to preserve the rights of the parties . .. and a…