Capps v. Electric Construction Co.

The claimant appeals a worker’s compensation order which we hereby affirm, except as to the denial of attorney’s fees. Claimant’s attorney seeks a fee for benefits obtained in a 1976 order, which also found entitlement to an attorney’s fee to be determined at a later date. Although the 1976 order was appealed to the Industrial Relations Commission, and reversed in part, in Electric Construction Co. v. Capps, (July 25, 1977), the finding of entitlement was sustained, and thus became the law of the case. Wurwarg v. Lighthouse Restaurant, 131 So.2d 469 (Fla.1961). Accordingly, the Judge is…