LINDA RAY WILLIAMS HISLOP, APPELLANT,

v.

EUNICE BENNETT, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Special Disability Tr. Fund v. E.J. Sales & Serv., 497 So. 2d 684 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986)
  …tory discount rate and the prevailing money market investment rate, and this advantage would be generally common to all claimants serviced by carriers subject to the same statute in the current financial market. As Jensen Construction Co. v. Sowers, 480 So. 2d 691 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985), indicates, such money market considerations may not serve as the predominant factor motivating a lump sum payment. We therefore conclude that the deputy’s approval of a lump sum payment in the present case was an abuse of discre…
• Collins v. F & J Fixtures & Crawford & Co., 498 So. 2d 1323 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986)
  …ntial adverse consequence militating against a finding of best interest. Similarly, it was not error for the deputy to rely on Collins’ failure to demonstrate that he could not buy a house absent a lump-sum award. Jensen Construction Co. v. Sowers, 480 So. 2d 691 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985), established that claimants seeking lump-sum advances should show “a unique benefit or interest which would be served by a lump-sum advance payment” over and above any consideration of an increase in income due to money market fa…
• V.J. Growers Supply & Florists Mut. Ins. Co. v. Newsome, 496 So. 2d 234 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986)
  …and remand for reconsideration of best interest in light of Shipp and Buono. We also emphasize the strict standards which must be used in making a determination of entitlement to lump sum benefits. For example, in Jensen Construction Co. v. Sowers, 480 So. 2d 691 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985), the D/C found a lump-sum award to be in the claimant’s best interest because the annuity which he planned to purchase would increase his monthly income and provide greater economic security. This court found that the D/C’s concl…

Authorities Cited

• Campbell v. The Kauffman Milling Co., 42 Fla. 328 (Fla. 1900)
• Wooten v. Nichola Rhodus, 470 So. 2d 844 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985)