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JCC Jacobs (Orlando) (Andy Borah) (6-19-23)– Awarded significant decrease in requested attorney’s fees and costs. Claimant’s counsel represented the claimant from October 2006 through October 2013. He claimed entitlement to attorney’s fees and costs from the E/C for allegedly securing compensation and medical benefits in the total amount of $156,220.00 through the prosecution of six PFB’s. Claimant’s counsel argued that he and the attorneys in his firm spent 470.45 hours of time and labor to secure benefits for claimant and... View More

JCC Medina Shore (Miami) (Brian Ricotta) (6-19-23) – Denied claimant’s Motion for $7,500.00 Advance. The claimant suffered a compensable left knee injury and was placed at MMI with a 1% PIR on July 2, 2019. The following year the claimant made initial complaints of right hip pain. The E/C denied compensability of the claimant’s right hip and the claimant sought unauthorized care with Dr. Van der Ven, who recommended in November of 2022 that she undergo a total right hip... View More

JCC Sancerni (Orlando) (Derrick Cox and Caitlin Golden) (6-12-23)– All benefits denied as barred by the statute of limitations.   Click here to view Order View More

JCC Weiss (Ft. Myers) (Andrew Borah) (6-2-23)– Denied compensability including claims for payment of hospital bills, indemnity and medical care. Claimant alleged to have pulled a muscle in his left leg at work. Claimant declined medical care for such alleged work injury. Nineteen days later, claimant was admitted into hospital unconscious and diagnosed with a staph infection in his left leg. Claimant remained hospitalized for months due to significant sequelae from the staph infection where, after the initial December discharge,... View More

JCC Lewis (Fort Lauderdale) (6-1-23) (Andy Borah) – Awarded sanctions against claimant’s attorney. Compensability of an alleged 1/27/2022 lumbar injury was adjudicated and denied for untimely notice and the only medical evidence presented established that the MCC of any disability or need for treatment was due to the claimant’s pre-existing conditions. The claimant’s lawyer also filed a petition asserting a different date of accident of 4/29/2022 with the Employer, alternatively alleging a repetitive back injury. However, the claimant did not... View More

JCC Walker (Pensacola) (5-31-23) (Matt Bennett) – Denied adjustment to AWW.  The claimant sought to include seasonal wages from her former seasonal job in her AWW. The claimant worked for the Employer as an airline ramp agent. Prior to that, she had worked as a server at a restaurant, but she quit her restaurant job before she began working for the Employer. Her work accident occurred five months later. She was only working with the Employer on the date of... View More