Foster v. E G & G Florida, Inc.

This workers’ compensation case asks whether penalties otherwise authorized by section 440.20(6), Florida Statutes (1997) for failure to pay “any installment of compensation ... payable without an award ... within 7 days after it became due” are foreclosed, if not demanded at an emergency conference at which entitlement to the indemnity payments themselves is established.

On or about December 28, 1998, Lori Foster filed a petition for benefits seeking temporary partial or temporary total disability benefits from October 22, 1998, and continuing, together with statutory penalties and interest.…