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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Manley v. Bennett's Truck Equipment
506 So.2d 1145, 12 Fla. L. Week. 1192, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., May 08, 1987)
Based upon the "logical cause" rule court determined that claimant retinal burns were as a result of his job doing welding work. The claimant presented a logical cause for his injury through the testimony of a physician and the employer/carrier offered no alternative explanation regarding how the injury occurred except through speculation of the claimant's treating psychiatrist. A deputy commissioner can reject a claimant's evidence regarding causation and choose not to apply the logical cause doctrine where the deputy commissioner finds the claimant lacks credibility. In this case the deputy commissioner concluded that the claimant was not credible. Court determined that in the absence of any substantial proof that the claimant deliberately injured himself the deputy commissioner may not reject the claimant's statement that he did not inflict the injury upon himself.
