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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Loyed v. Hillsborough County School Board
25 FLW D1229
JCC rejected psychiatric testimony that accident was
major contributing cause of the claimant's psychiatric
problems. Court affirmed on appeal. The causal
connection between the industrial accident and the
claimant's injury or disability must be established by
a reasonable degree of medical certainty. The
determination of the required causal connection between
the work place accident and the injury, however, is a
judicial function. The JCC may accept the testimony of
one doctor over another and may reject unrefuted
medical evidence he or she disbelieves provided there
is a reason given.
Although expert medical testimony has an important role
in establishing whether the industrial accident was the
major contributing cause of the claimant's disability,
the determination of major contributing cause is a
factual determination for the JCC to make based upon
medical and lay evidence in the record. A finding as
to whether the work place accident was the major
contributing cause of the claimant's injury must be
affirmed if the record contains competent substantial
evidence supporting the finding.
