Legal Opinion
Florida Hospital v. Taylor
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided May 17, 2001No. 1D00-2416PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtBenton, J.
Florida Hospital appeals the order awarding attorney’s fees to Desiree Taylor, now known as Desiree Boen, under section 440.34(3)(c), Florida Statutes (1997). Florida Hospital contends that it does not owe attorney’s fees because it originally accepted her knee injury as com-pensable. But later Florida Hospital alleged that she suffered another accident in the course of other employment, and attributed her injury thereafter to that accident. By raising this defense, Florida Hospital placed at issue the compensability of the injury, an issue on which Ms. Boen *602ultimately prevailed. Accordingly,…
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- Gulledge v. Dion Oil Co.District Court of Appeal of Florida · 1992
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