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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Luttrell v. Roger Holler Chevrolet
625 So.2d 921
Medical records of claimant's prior industrial accident were properly admitted into evidence. The documents which claimant himself signed were properly admissible underSection 90.608(1)(a), Florida Statutes, which allows for the introduction of a witness' prior inconsistent statements for the purpose of impeachment. (The claimant's signature on a prior First Report of Accident also allowed to be admitted into evidence.) The medical records were also admissible under Section 90.803(18)(a), Florida Statutes, which permits the introduction of a statement offered against a party if it is the party's own statement in either an individual or a representative capacity. In this case, even if the records of the doctor were not properly admissible under the business record's exception to the hearsay rule, such information as contained in the doctor's records were largely cumulative to other admissible documents and the admission was harmless. Records consisting of insurance claims forms from a prior adjuster's file and the doctor's progress reports to that prior injury were also admissible under Section 90.803(18)(c) permitting the admission into evidence of a statement by a person specifically authorized by a party to make a statement concerning the subject. The insurance claims forms for the prior injury contained the claimant's authorization for "the release of any medical information necessary to process this claim."
