Cases

Court reversed JCC's order directing the employer to pay permanent total disability supplemental benefits together with interest and penalties thereon.  At the time of the settlement agreement between the parties, the Workers' Compensation Trust Fund, not the employer, was responsible for the payment of supplemental benefits.  Distinguishing the case of Platt v. R.C. Prop., 573 So. 2d 176 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991), there was nothing in the agreement between the parties that might fairly be read as an election by the employer to pay such benefits directly to the claimant.