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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City of Riviera Beach v. Napier
791 So.2d 1160, 26 FLW D1724
IME chosen by employer/carrier charged and collected a
fee for such examination in excess of the maximum
allowed by law for IMEs in workers' compensation cases.
Physician's action in charging a fee in excess of the
allowable amount took the physician out of the
statutory category of an independent medical examiner
and the JCC properly excluded the testimony of the
physician as an inadmissible medical opinion. The
employer/carrier's IME charge was in excess of the fee
schedule whereas the claimant's IME physician was
within the statutory limit. See Rule 38F-7.020,
Florida Administrative Code which sets the maximum fee
to be paid for an IME at $200 per hour for a maximum of
two hours for a total maximum payment of
$400.(Statutory change.)
