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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Handy v. Golden Gem Growers, Inc.
454 So.2d 69, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Aug 15, 1984)
Claimant received medical care for hypertension. Although finding no medical evidence relating the hypertension condition to compensable accident the DC awarded the payment of medical care for such hypertension since the claimant reasonably believed there was a causal connection. Court reversed Deputy Commissioner and held that for conditions not readily observable or discoverable without medical examination proof of causation requires medical testimony based on reasonable medical probability that the injury or in this case the hypertensive condition is causally connected to the employment. There is no good faith exception to this requirement and the claimant's reasonable belief that his condition is causally connected to the industrial accident is irrelevant.
