Silver Plumbing v. Gervin

This cause is before us on appeal from a final judgment of the deputy commissioner directing the employer/carrier to pay claimant’s physician the balance due on his bill, including interest at 12 percent, and to pay the physician’s attorney “reasonable attorney’s fees, the exact dollar amount to be determined in a separate proceeding.” We affirm the portion of the deputy’s order awarding payment of the balance due on the medical bill. We amend the deputy’s order to award interest at 12 percent on the sum of $2,957.50 from the ninth day of March, 1983, the date the deputy’s order was rendered.…