Flowers v. ACOUSTI ENGINEERING COMPANY OF FLORIDA, 1D03-0619.
Decision Date | 10 December 2004 |
Docket Number | No. 1D03-0619.,1D03-0619. |
Citation | 888 So.2d 735 |
Parties | James A. FLOWERS, Appellant, v. ACOUSTI ENGINEERING COMPANY OF FLORIDA and Commercial Risk Management, Inc., Appellees. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
T. Rhett Smith and Teresa E. Liles, of T. Rhett Smith, P.A., Pensacola, for Appellant.
Roderic G. Magie, Pensacola, for Appellees.
Reviewing de novo the interpretation of section 440.14(1)(a) & (1)(d), Florida Statutes (1987), which is a question of law, see BellSouth Telecomm, Inc. v. Meeks, 863 So.2d 287, 289 (Fla.2003),
we conclude that the Judge of Compensation Claims correctly construed the statute in using Appellant/Claimant's average weekly wage "at the time of the injury," — i.e., the date of his 1988 industrial accident rather than the 2001 date when he was determined to be permanently, totally disabled — as the proper basis for computing compensation. See James v. Armstrong World Indus., Inc., 864 So.2d 1132 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003); Karnes v. City of Boca Raton, 858 So.2d 1264 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003).
AFFIRMED.
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