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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Trujillo v. Southern Wine & Spirits
525 So.2d 481, 13 Fla. L. Week. 1222, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., May 20, 1988)
The adequacy of a claimant's work search is a factual issue within the deputy commissioner's fact finding authority and the deputy commissioner's conclusion in this regard will be upheld if the record provides any competent substantial evidence. A workers' compensation order needs only the degree of specificity necessary to enable the court to determine how the deputy commissioner arrives at his conclusion. The deputy commissioner's conclusion that the claimant's job search was inadequate without more deemed to be an insufficient specific finding as to why the job search was not adequate.Court determined that it was error for deputy commissioner to deny benefits to claimant based upon deposition not introduced into evidence.The absence of a physician imposed restriction of the type of work the claimant can perform does not preclude recovery for wage loss benefits. Even when the claimant had a medical release to return to work with no restrictions or limitations wage loss can be due if it can be shown that the industrial injury and resulting condition were a contributing cause of his wage loss claim.
