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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State of Florida, Division of Risk Management/Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Martin
22 FLW D6667
JCC order finding a causal connection between the
claimant's need for surgery in 1992 and a work
related accident in 1987 reversed. Speculation or
conjecture by the treating physician is not sufficient
to establish a causal connection between a workers'
compensation injury and a medical condition. The
appellate court will never reverse a workers'
compensation order because it disagrees with the JCC's
assessment of the evidence or because competent and
substantial evidence merely supports the losing side's
view of the case. However, a JCC may not rely
exclusively upon expert opinion based upon an
inaccurate factual history which in turn is completely
unsupported by the evidence.