ROGER VENNE, APPELLANT,
v.
JACK KLEUVER AND JOHN PATTERSON, APPELLEES

Fla. 3d DCA | 1983-07-26
No. 83-107
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUB-BART and FERGUSON, JJ.
435 So. 2d 350 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1983) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The trial judge denied the claimant-appellant’s rule nisi application under Section 440.24(1), Fla.Stat. (1981), for enforcement of a worker’s compensation award regularly entered against the defendant-appellees on the ground that the award was substantively incorrect. It is clearly-established, however, that the employer’s only remedy in such a situation is by appeal,1 Martinique Hotel, Inc. v. Kasner, 153 So. 2d 68 (Fla. 3d DCA 1963), cert. denied, 155 So. 2d 697 (Fla. 1963), and that the circuit court has no authority in a rule nisi proceeding to consider the merits of the underlying compensation order or, indeed, to do anything but require its enforcement when, as here, it is in full force and effect. Lillard v. City of Miami, 220 So. 2d 413 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969); Phoenix Assurance Co. of New York v. Merritt, 160 So. 2d 552 (Fla. 2d DCA 1963), cert. denied, 168 So. 2d 147 (Fla.1964). The order under review is therefore reversed and the cause remanded with directions to grant the plaintiff the relief sought in the petition.

Reversed.

. An appeal was in fact taken, but was dismissed on procedural grounds by the first district court of appeal. Kluever v. Verme, Case no. AM-126 (July 26, 1982).


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