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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Jones v. Plantation Foods
388 So.2d 590, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Aug 28, 1980)
Where employer/carrier authorized doctor only for an evaluation this does not authorize the continued remedial treatment of that patient.The Court followed the Magic City Bottling Co. case and allowed the judge to reject medical testimony and instead rely on lay testimony to increase impairment rating. Dissenting opinion said that 440.25(3)(b) F.S. altered the rule in Magic City Bottling Co. but this provision was not brought up. In the case of { Bell Rentals and Sales v. Harvey 405 So.2d 289 8/28/80 Case_2181} the provisions of 440.25(3)(b) F.S. were followed and the court found that an impairment rating in excess of what the doctor gave cannot be awarded.
