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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Deahl v. Uni-Pak Corp.
550 So.2d 122, 14 Fla. L. Week. 2325, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Oct 03, 1989)
There is no presumption statutory or otherwise that an injury for which compensation is claimed is presumed to be causally connected to the claimant's employment. The claimant must prove a causal connection between his employment and the injury by competent substantial evidence. In this case claimant failed to show a causal connection between bacterial meningitis and injury on job. Section 440.26(1) establishes a presumption that the claim comes within the provisions of Chapter 440; however this presumption is only applicable where an injury has indisputably occurred on the job and there is no evidence of causation available. If conflicting evidence of the cause of the injury does exist the claimant must prove a causal connection between the employment and the injury and this connection may not be shown by application of the presumption. The evidence in the record considered by the court did not prove that the claimant's head injury was the portal of injury of the infection. On the contrary the evidence established the existence of several possible sources of entry and no one source was more probable than another.
