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.