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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Vadala v. Polk County School Board
27 FLW D1801
On Motion for Rehearing and/or Rehearing En Banc
(Original opinion at 27 FLW D1032) JCC
concluded that a 1990 knee injury was the major
contributing cause of the claimant's ongoing disability
to the exclusion of a later back injury. On appeal,
court reversed stating that there was no competent and
substantial evidence to support the judge's decision.
The only medical testimony received into evidence was
that of the treating physician who testified that as a
result of the back injury alone (second accident) the
claimant was relegated to sedentary work and such
injury caused severe, incapacitating problems. While
the JCC is permitted to reject unrefuted medical
testimony he disbelieves, he must give a reason for
doing so. In this case, not only did the JCC not give
a reason for rejecting the unrefuted medical testimony,
he failed to mention the testimony altogether.
