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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Sabre Marine v. Feliciano
461 So.2d 985, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Dec 17, 1984)
Court reversed finding of deputy commissioner and held that there was no medical evidence of record to substantiate a medical causation between a compensable accident and a resulting thrombo phlebitis condition. Court ruled that doctor's testimony was vague as to such causal connection and not based upon reasonable medical probability. Where only a single medical expert testifies concerning a particular medical question and where the expert's testimony is vague uncertain or ambigious the deputy should refrain from relying on isolated portions of the testimony and instead should consider all of the testimony and attempt to distill from it the essence of what the expert is attempting to say. In this case the totality of the expert's testimony was vague.Since medical evidence was not presented live the appellate court was not at a disadvantage in assessing and evaluating the evidence.
