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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Peters v. Armellini Exp. Lines
527 So.2d 266, 13 Fla. L. Week. 1381, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Jun 08, 1988)
Court excused late notice of accident where claimant testified that he did not notify his employer about the accident because he did not believe his injury was serious.Court remanded case for taking of deposition of physician on issue of causation where claimant's initial failure to depose physician was the result of deputy commissioner's suggestion that such deposition was unnecessary.Although lay testimony is of probative value in establishing the sequence of events of an accident actual inability or ability to perform work pain and similar facts within the actual knowledge and sensory experience of the claimant lay testimony cannot be used to establish causal relationship within reasonable medical probability as to conditions and symptoms that are not readily observable. Soft tissue injuries such as lower back difficulties are not readily observable and hence are not susceptible to evaluation by lay persons. Medical testimony is needed to establish the causal relationship between a soft tissue injury and an alleged accident.
