ETS of New Orleans, Inc. v. Jones

CASANUEVA, Judge.

This is an appeal from the equitable distribution, pursuant to section 440.39, Florida Statutes (1997), of the proceeds from a negligence suit on which the worker’s compensation insurance carrier, the appellant, ETS of New Orleans, Inc. (ETS), had asserted a worker’s compensation lien. ETS contends that the trial court committed three errors. First, it claims that the court improperly permitted counsel for the defendant in the underlying tort suit to testify as an expert on the value of that tort claim, and, second, that the court improperly determined the full value of the…