CopyPublished | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 195, 1986 Fla. App. LEXIS 5968
...*468 HBA contends that the “useful life” found by the appraiser is in fact the “inherent physical life” (i.e., the number of years during which the building is expected to stand), and not the “economic useful life” contemplated by the regulations. Useful life defined by section 104.17, Providers’ Reimbursement Manual, is an asset’s “expected useful life to the provider, not necessarily the inherent useful or physical life.” The manual indicates that a presumption must be made that the useful life of an asset...