Willoughby v. Madison Corr. Institute/Division of Risk Mgmt.
Willoughby v. Madison Corr. Institute/Division of Risk Mgmt.
Opinion of the Court
In this workers' compensation case, Claimant appeals, and the Employer/Carrier (E/C) cross-appeals, an order of the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) declining, in part, to approve a stipulated E/C-paid attorney's fee, approving a reduced fee amount, and ordering that the balance of the monies be remitted to Claimant personally. The JCC's ruling was based on his findings of fact regarding the reasonableness of the attorney's fee. The record before us does not support those findings. Therefore, just as in the recently published Gomez v. Frank Crum, Inc. ,
Accordingly, we REVERSE the portion of the order reducing the agreed upon attorney's fee, as well as the portion of the order reforming the stipulation, and REMAND for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Wolf, Osterhaus, and Winsor, JJ., concur.
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