· 7/13/2015
Ricardo Sanchez v. American Airlines and Sedgwick CMS
Citations
- 169 So. 3d 1197
How courts have described this case
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- “holding that payment of attorney's fee does not extend statute of limitations because ‘the payment of an attorney's fee is neither a payment of compensation nor the furnishing of medical treatment—the only two events that will extend the statute of limitations under subsection 440.19(2)’”
- noting, in the context of a similar tolling provision in section 440.19(2
- “[S]ubsection (2) provides that the only events that will extend the statute of limitations are the payment of indemnity benefits or the furnishing of medical treatment.”
- “Subsection (1) of section 440.19 provides generally that a PFB must be filed within two years after the date of injury or it will be barred, and subsection (2
- “[I]t is well-settled that the payment of an attorney’s fee is neither a payment of compensation nor the furnishing of medical treatment—the only two events that will extend the statute of limitations under subsection 440.19(2
- treating “toll” as meaning “extend”
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Judges: Thomas, Wetherell, Ray
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