Workers' Compensation
Listed below is McConnaughhay, Coonrod, Pope, Weaver & Stern, P.A.'s workers' compensation case law database. The database dates back until 1971 and includes over 5500 workers' compensation court decisions.
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Paul H. Cowart/Building Specialty v. Cowart
481 So.2d 83, 11 Fla. L. Week. 129, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Jan 03, 1986)
Appellate court rejected testimony of claimant as to average weekly wage. Court ruled that DC erred to base average weekly wage on testimony that employee paid a percentage of gross receipts of business rather than percentage of net profit where tax returns showed that payment of salary on basis of gross receipts would have resulted in business losing money.In order to be sufficient to support a conclusion evidence must be more than competent it must be substantial and must accord with logic and reason as well. The fact that a witness may be competent to testify about a particular subject does not mean that any and all evidence given by the witness concerning that subject may be automatically accepted and relied upon by the deputy.
