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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Pic n' Save v. Edens
653 So.2d 1132
JCC's reliance on opinion of doctor that claimant was
temporarily disabled affirmed. Although this doctor
did not examine the claimant during the disputed period
of time, his opinion was based on the continued
existence of physical symptoms from the time the prior
physician saw the claimant until the relied upon
physician expressed his opinion. The doctor's opinion
was also based upon diagnostic studies and the
physician's own physical examination and assessment of
the claimant's condition a few days after the end of
the disputed period.
Award of temporary partial benefits reversed. In order
to establish entitlement to temporary benefits, the
claimant must show that he is unable to do light work
uninterruptedly or that a good faith, albeit
unsuccessful, work search has been performed. There
was no medical evidence that the claimant could not
work and that being the case, it was incumbent upon the
claimant to establish temporary partial disability by
evidence of a good faith work search. In this case,
the judge in his order failed to state the basis upon
which he determined that the claimant had completed a
good faith work search for the period in question.
