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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Osceola County Com'rs v. Hand
458 So.2d 1134, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Jul 13, 1984)
Before benefits are awardable there must be a showing that the injury is causally connected to the claimant's employment. For conditions not readily observable or discoverable without medical examination proof of causation requires medical testimony based upon reasonable medical probability that the injury is causally connected to the claimant's employment. In this case the doctor testified that the claimant's compression fracture was not related to her employment and the court determined that it was error for the deputy commissioner to award benefits based upon the compression fracture.