Workers' Compensation
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State, Dept. of Agriculture v. Hinote
442 So.2d 297, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Dec 01, 1983)
Where a latent injury is by its nature so obviously susceptible of aggravation and acceleration and is also progressive in effect without aggravation expert medical testimony concerning the putative aggravating event must necessarily be as circumspect as it was in this case. Such circumspection on causation no more renders the medical opinion incompetent than would medical certainty.Claimant injured in compensable accident but injuries from that accident did not manifest themselves until after the running of the statute of limitations. Court said that statute of limitations ran from date of accident and not from the date the injuries manifested themselves unlike in occupational disease cases. Court found an intervening accident that aggravated the prior accident which began again the running of the statute of limitations. However the court did find that the statute of limitations begins on the date of accident and not when the injuries manifested themselves.
