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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Blanc v. Allen

499 So.2d 900, 12 Fla. L. Week. 12, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Dec 19, 1986)

The Deputy Commissioner's finding that the claimant did not suffer a permanent disability and was a malingerer was not a proper ground for denying a psychiatric evaluation where medical evidence demonstrates that such an evaluation is reasonably required by the nature of the claimant's injury or his process of recovery. Court ordered claimant evaluated by a psychiatrist in the presence of an interpreter.