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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The North River Insurance Company v. Wuelling
21 FLW D2492
(en banc) Court receded from its opinion in Waffle
House v. Hutchinson, 673 So. 2d 883 (1st DCA 1996) and
determined that the employer/carrier does not
automatically accept compensability of a claim by its
failure to timely file a notice of denial to a petition
for benefits. Although not relevant to the findings in
this case, the court suggests that the failure to file
a timely notice of denial would preclude denial of a
claim by the employer/carrier had the employer/carrier
elected to "pay and investigate" a claim for a period
of 120 days as provided for in Section 440.20(4),
Florida Statutes.
