Camus v. Manatee County School Board
31 FLW D907
Section 440.13(5), Florida Statutes, provides that only the medical opinions of an expert medical advisor appointed by the JCC, an independent medical examiner, or an authorized treating provider are admissible in proceedings before a JCC. Even though an authorized physician moves to a new professional practice area, this does not act as a deauthorization of that otherwise authorized doctor and does not preclude that authorized doctor from testifying in proceedings before the JCC. There was no evidence in this case that the employer/carrier ever intended or attempted to deauthorize the authorized doctor. The JCC’s exclusion of the authorized doctor’s testimony in these modification proceedings was not harmless error.