Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. v. Taylor

As written, section 440.25, Florida Statutes (1997), contemplates compliance with sections 440.191 (requiring that a request for assistance be filed before a petition for benefits is filed) and 440.192 (authorizing the filing of a petition for benefits, if the request for assistance proves unavailing for thirty days). Here the claimant did not file a request for assistance before he filed his motion for emergency medical conference. Nor does the motion for emergency medical conference meet the pleading requirements laid down by section 440.192.

We have apparently held, however, that an…