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.