Tingle v. Board of County Commissioners

DREW, Justice.

The petition for certiorari in this case controverts a compensation order entered upon remand by this Court, Fla., 174 So.2d 1, in which opinion the facts and earlier proceedings are detailed. In the current order the deputy found specifically that the industrial accident accelerated by ten years the death of claimant’s husband, who suffered pre-existing coronary disease, but concluded that full death benefits under the act, F.S. Sec. 440.16(2), F.S.A. should be paid since the period of acceleration exceeded the number of weeks’ compensation prescribed for death. The Commission…