South Coast Const. Co. v. Chizauskas
Decision Date | 03 March 1965 |
Docket Number | No. 33543,33543 |
Citation | 172 So.2d 442 |
Parties | SOUTH COAST CONSTRUCTION COMPANY and Bituminous Casualty Corporation, Petitioners, v. Josie CHIZAUSKAS and the Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents. |
Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Eugene E. Williams, Miami, for petitioners.
Alfred Gustinger, Jr., and Kenneth L. Ryskamp, Miami, Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for respondents.
Because of the combined effect of a detached retina of the right eye suffered in the admittedly compensable accident here involved and a previous loss of sight in the left eye the respondent-claimant, Josie Chizauskas, was accepted by the employer-carrier as being totally disabled.
On petition of the claimant the deputy among other things ordered that the employer-carrier pay to claimant's husband the sum of $20.00 per week for services furnished by him to the claimant. The employer-carrier seeks quashal of this award to claimant's husband.
As the basis for this award to claimant's husband the deputy stated that:
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On review the Full Commission reversed the award to the claimant's husband apparently on the ground that the services found by the deputy to be rendered by the husband were not of the kind required to be furnished by the employer under Section 440.13, F.S.A.
As to this issue the Full Commission remanded the cause to the deputy with directions that he '*...
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