Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress v. Williams

ALLEN, Judge.

The employer/servicing agent appeal a workers’ compensation order awarding payment of the claimant’s attorney’s fee. We conclude that the amount awarded is not excessive, except insofar as it encompasses time spent establishing the amount of the fee. Such time, expended here after entry of the merits order in which fee entitlement was established, has been excluded from the fee predicate since the supreme court’s ruling in Crittenden Orange Blossom Fruit v. Stone, 514 So.2d 351 (Fla.1987). See, e.g., Regal Wood Products v. Baschansci, 603 So.2d 551 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992); Dobbs v.…