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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Travelers Insurance Company and the Minute Maid Company v. Collins
27 FLW D1689
Court affirmed JCC's determination that
employer/carrier was estopped in denying the
compensability of the claim because they did not deny
it within 120 days of the commencement of payments
thereon. JCC expressly found that a report from the
physician authorized to treat the claimant's back put
the employer/carrier on notice that the claimant's
lower back condition consisted of a preexisting
degenerative disc coupled with an aggravation thereof.
This report put the employer/carrier on notice of a
need to make a reasonable investigation of the claim
prior to paying benefits to determine the
compensability of the low back condition. By making
payment for the condition in question for over 120
days, the employer/carrier was thereafter estopped in
denying compensability of that condition.