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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Manuel v. Amstaff

915 So. 2d 679

JCC erred in rejecting the opinion of an expert medical advisor, which had concluded that the claimant’s work injury was the major contributing cause of her major depression and pain disorder. The record on appeal did not contain competent and substantial evidence to support the determination of the JCC that clear and convincing evidence existed sufficient to reject the EMA opinion. Contradiction between the EMA and one of the disagreeing physicians is not, by itself, a reasonable basis for the JCC to reject the EMA’s opinion.