Pfeffer v. Labor Ready Se., Inc.
| Decision Date | 28 April 2016 |
| Docket Number | No. SC14–1325.,SC14–1325. |
| Citation | 191 So.3d 884 (Mem) |
| Parties | Louis P. PFEFFER, et al., Petitioners, v. LABOR READY SOUTHEAST, INC., et al., Respondents. |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Louis Paul Pfeffer, Jupiter, FL, and Michael Jason Winer of the Law Office of Michael J. Winer, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Petitioners.
Ronald Gray McCormick, Jr. of The Bleakley Bavol Law Firm, Tampa, FL, for Respondents.
John Jacob Schickel, Jacksonville, FL, for Amicus Curiae Workers' Compensation Section of the Florida Bar.
This case is before this Court for review of the decision of the First District Court of Appeal in Pfeffer v. Labor Ready Southeast, Inc., 155 So.3d 1155, 1156 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014)
, a workers' compensation case involving the statutory attorney's fee provision declared unconstitutional in this Court's opinion in Castellanos v. Next Door Co., No. SC13–2082, 192 So.3d 431, 432–33, 2016 WL 1700521, slip op. at 1–2 (Fla. Apr. 28, 2016). Pursuant to the fee schedule in section 440.34, Florida Statutes, the judge of compensation claims was constrained to award a total of $13,017.80 in attorney's fees, to be split by three attorneys that spent a total of 258.10 hours on the case, for a fee award of $50.44 per hour. The attorney for the employer/carrier, on the other hand, was paid more than $50,000.
In an unelaborated opinion, the First District affirmed the statutory fee award “[b]ased on” its decision in Castellanos [v. Next Door Co./Amerisure Ins. Co., 124 So.3d 392 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013)
] and certified that its disposition passed upon the same question certified in Castellanos.
Pfeffer, 155 So.3d at 1156. We therefore have jurisdiction. See art. V, §§ 3(b)(3), (4), Fla. Const. Because our holding in Castellanos resolves this issue, we quash the First District's decision and remand for further proceedings consistent with Castellanos. See also
Richardson v. Aramark/Sedgwick CMS, No. SC14–738, 193 So.3d 880–81, 2016 WL 1704132, slip op. at 2–3 (Fla. Apr. 28, 2016) ; Diaz v. Palmetto Gen. Hosp., No. SC14–1916, 191 So.3d 882, 882, 2016 WL 1704091, at *1 (Fla. Apr. 28, 2016).
It is so ordered.
, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, and PERRY, JJ., concur.
CANADY
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