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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Newman Heating & Boiler Repair, Inc. v. Newman
418 So.2d 1008, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Mar 18, 1982)
Diminished earning capacity is not a criteria for determining a compensation award in a case involving a scheduled injury. The only exception to this rule is where the scheduled injury causes disability or incapacity in some other part of the body or where the claimant's disability is total rather than partial. In this case the claimant had a pre-existing back condition which the doctor testified could have been aggravated by a scheduled knee injury. Court stated that the doctor's testimony of the knee injury possibly aggravating the pre-existing back condition was not sufficient to warrant a merger finding.