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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Younkman v. Waste Collection Services
576 So.2d 801, 16 Fla. L. Week. 662, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Mar 11, 1991)
Even where a claimant has suffered a history of psychiatric problems an aggravation of a psychiatric condition may be compensable if it is the direct result of an industrial accident. The question of causation of medical problems is peculiarly within the knowledge of medical experts and accordingly where the only medical testimony presented indicates that the industrial accident is the cause of the medical problem it should be accepted unless the Judge of Compensation Claims can offer a sufficient reason for rejecting it. In this case the judge ruled that the claimant's psychiatric problems preexisted the claimant's on-the-job accident and benefits were denied. This decision was based on competent and substantial evidence. The treating doctor testified that the work incident was just "a factor in her (claimant's) very depressed state.On appeal the issue is not whether there is competent and substantial evidence to support an appellant's argument but whether there is competent and substantial evidence to support the order under review.
