Pennsylvania National Insurance Group v. Mel

THOMAS, Justice.

This controversy, in our opinion, revolves principally around Rule 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Florida Industrial Commission, which provides as follows:

"All agreements, stipulations, and waivers, to be valid: (1) must be in writing and signed by the parties or their counsel and filed with the Deputy Commissioner, or the Commission, or (2) must be made in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner or the Commission, and reduced to writing by him, or them and made a part of the record, or (3) dictated by the parties or their counsel 'in the record in the presence of the…