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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Severini v. Pan American Beauty School Inc.

557 So. 2d 896, 15 FLW D563, Feburary 28, 1990

When all medical evidence is in the form of depositions rather than witnesses testifying live before the lower tribunal the appellate court is in an equal position to judge to the credibility and probative value of such transcribed testimony as the Judge of Compensation Claims.Court determined that Judge of Compensation Claims erred in finding that the claimant's herniated disc was not related to a compensable accident. The only medical testimony testimony of record was from a doctor who said that the herniated disc was in fact related to the accident. The Judge of Compensation Claims may not reject unrefuted medical testimony relating to the claimant's condition and its relationship to a compensable accident without giving reasonable explanations for rejecting it.