Morgan, Beauzay, Hammer, Ezgar, Bledsoe & Rucka v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

KANE, J.

Petitioner, a law firm, seeks review of an order of the board denying its petition for reconsideration of that portion of an award allowing $2,250 for legal services rendered to its client, a claimant for workers’ compensation benefits.

Petitioner represented Harry Schneiderman, a claimant who allegedly sustained injury to his heart arising out of and occurring in the course of his employment as an automobile parts man by respondent Paul Swanson Ford, and secured a recovery for him consisting of four months of temporary total disability, permanent disability of 78 percent…