Box v. Tallahassee Fire Department/City of Tallahassee

In this workers’ compensation proceeding, Claimant argues that the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) erred in granting the Employer/Carrier’s (E/C’s) motion for summary final order. For the following reasons, we agree.

The workers’ compensation rules of procedure, found in the Florida Administrative Code, provide that “[a] summary final order shall be rendered if the judge determines from the pleadings and depositions, together with affidavits, if any, that no genuine issue as to any material fact exists and that the moving party is entitled as a matter of law to the entry of a final order.”…