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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Slater v. United Parcel Service
507 So.2d 1146, 12 Fla. L. Week. 1215, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., May 12, 1987)
The time period for providing the employer notice of an injury does not begin to run until the claimant as a reasonable person should recognize the nature seriousness and probably compensable character of his injury or disease. In this case the claimant was unaware of the severity of his injury until several months after the injury. This according to the court was a satisfactory reason for not notifying the employer of the injury within the statutory thirty day time period.In defining an "accident" under the Workers' Compensation Law court determined that an unexpected result is sufficient to constitute an accident even though there was no unexpected slip fall or misstep. A herniated disc resulting from work activities constituted an accident within the meaning of the workers' compensation statute.
