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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Farnam v. U.S. Sugar Corporation

34 FLW D509

In accordance with Section 440.192(9), Florida Statutes, only claims that have been listed in a petition for benefits and mediated can be adjudicated by the JCC. A claim for the compensability of a back condition, based on a repetitive trauma theory, was the subject of a petition for benefits but had not gone through the mediation process. The JCC correctly found that the claim was not ripe for adjudication but thereafter erred in addressing whether the repetitive trauma caused to any degree the claimant’s low back condition. Because of the fact that the JCC erred in addressing the repetitive trauma claim, she also erred in denying an IME.