Klase v. Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers

JOANOS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a workers’ compensation order denying the $20 per week minimum disability compensation provision of Section 440.12(2), Florida Statutes (1975).1 The deputy concluded that the 1983 amendment to the Florida Workers’ Compensation Act, codified as Section 440.-15(9)(d), Florida Statutes (1983),2 is procedural and therefore applicable retroactively. We reverse that determination.

In determining that Section 440.15(9)(d) requires retroactive application, the deputy commissioner found, inter alia, that the 1983 amendment was “a direct legislative response to State…