Quinn v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

GUNTHER, Judge.

Mark Quinn appeals the Public Employees Relations Commission’s (PERC) award of attorney’s fees. Quinn argues that PERC erred in failing to apply a contingency risk multiplier and in not awarding him attorney’s fees for litigating the issue of attorney’s fees.

PERC rejected Quinn’s contention that a multiplier was appropriate because the agency concluded that Quinn’s career service appeal constituted a category 1 fee award (public policy cases) rather than a category 2 award (breach of contract). See Standard Guaranty Ins. Co. v. Quanstrom, 555 So.2d 828 (Fla.1990). After PERC’s…