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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Batka v. Duff's Smorgasbord

560 So.2d 377, 15 Fla. L. Week. D1171, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Apr 27, 1990)

Judge accepted the testimony of one doctor over another and found that the claimant did not have a permanent impairment resulting from a compensable accident. This decision was affirmed on appeal. Court stated that it is exclusively within the judge's province to evaluate the credibility of witnesses resolve conflicts in the testimony and weigh the evidence in workers' compensation cases. In so doing a judge may accept the testimony of one physician over that of others. Whether the appellate court may have believed witnesses expressing a contrary view or may have embraced a contrary interpretation of the evidence is irrelevant.