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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Curtis v. Florida Correctional Institute
509 So.2d 1192, 12 Fla. L. Week. 1569, (Fla.App.1 Dist., Jun 26, 1987)
Where the issue before the deputy commissioner involves essentially a medical question, the DC should offer a sufficient reason for rejecting expert medical testimony, especially if such testimony is unrefuted. Court determined that DC erred in rejecting medical testimony even where claimant failed to advise doctors of her preexisting psychiatric problems.Deputy commissioner rejected doctor's testimony of causal connection between claimant's depression and accident based on employer/carrier submitted evidence that the claimant had these depression problems before accident. All doctors had testified that the depression was related to accident. Court reversed on the basis that none of the doctors stated that their opinions as to the causal relationship between the claimant's accident and her emotional problems would have changed had the doctors been fully apprised concerning the claimant's preexisting psychiatric history.
