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McNatt v. Brevard County & Preferred Governmental Claims
Derrick E. Cox
JCC Terlizesse – Total denial of presumption case; finds no occupational cause; accepts opinions of Kakaar over Mathias; finds Mathias opinion lacked sufficient foundation and was not based on all the facts
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Thompson v. First Financial Employee Leasing/Unisource
Gregory D. White
JCC Condry – GDW total winner; rejects claimant’s testimony, considering multiple inconsistencies re: actual DOA, alleged reporting and other issues.
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Monroy v. ASP Framing/Usis & GM Group Const./FCIC
Rex Hurley
JCC Sculco - Obtains ruling that GM/FCIC not the claimant's employer, July 15, 2008
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Campos v. S.E. Personnel Leasing/Lion Insurance/Packard Claims
Anthony M. Amelio
JCC Harnage - Total denial of benefits based upon evidence of claimant's multiple misrepresentations regarding prior lumbar injuries to authorized physicians and in deposition
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Harrison v. Coronet Industries/U.S. Fire and Casualty
William H. Rogner
JCC Jenkins - Total denial of compensability for alleged cardio-pulmonary disease and cervical injuries.
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Jackson v. VNA of Treasure Coast/FCCI
Anthony M. Amelio
JCC denies claim for compensability of low back injury and associated medical treatment; finds claimant failed to sustain her burden to prove causal relationship
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Chamness v. Cargill/SRS
Michael S. Waranch
JCC Sculco - total denial based on misrepresentation; claimant questioned extensively in depo re. gym membership and working out; claimant denied; requested errata sheet which initially did not correspond to correct page numbers; two months later changed some but not all answers concerning gym memberships and working out; JCC finds errata sheet does not make initial answers disappear; rejects claimant explanations that he did not understand questions and that Vicodin clouded his mind;
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Paulding v. Brooksville Healthcare/Premier Group Ins.
W. Rogers Turner, Jr.
JCC Murphy – total denial of benefits; JCC finds claimant misrepresented her prior condition and medical history for the purpose of obtaining benefits.
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Burgess v. Buckhead Beef/Sentry Ins. Co.
Gregory D. White
JCC Terlizzise – total denial of ongoing benefits; JCC denies claimant's attempts to have doctors testify by phone; denies attempts to offer unauthenticated records into evidence; rejects claimant’s lack of recall re. pre-injury permanent restrictions assigned by Dr. Martinez; Martinez emphatically testified those restrictions were personally communicated to claimant
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Lewis v. Employee Leasing Solutions / ICA
Gregory D. White
JCC Thurman – denies all futher benefits based on claimant’s adamant denial of prior low back pain or problems, which was false, fraudulent and misleading in light of evidence to the contrary.
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Wimberly v. Winn Dixie
Derrick E. Cox
Petition for Benefits dismissed and denied for compensability of subsequent alleged accident, repetitive trauma, and medical treatment.
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Alcazar v. Southeast Personnel Leasing, Inc.
Anthony M. Amelio
Claimant failed to present competent substantial evidence proving causal connection between claimant's employment to alleged injuries.
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Auman v. Spectrum HR
Gregory D. White
Claimant had separate IA’s to separate body parts and sought 104 weeks for each injury, although disabilities ran concurrently. JCC awarded disability in addition to 104 weeks, but declined to rule that each injury resulted in additional potential 104 weeks.
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Richards v. One Eleven Grill Inc/Zenith Insurance
Matthew W. Bennett
JCC found, based upon medical testimony that Major Contributing Cause of claimant's back condition was pre-existing, denied further benefits
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Braun, Mark v Brevard County Board of Commissioners
Derrick Cox
Judge Terlizzese denied treatment, bills, mileage and further treatment for claimant’s back condition
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Pearson v. Gevity HR
Robert S. Gluckman, Esq.
JCC denies compensability of treatment for knee condition finding Major Contributing Cause of need for treatment to be underlying, unrelated avascular necrosis; denies temporary benefits, attorney fees and costs.
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Brown v. Velda Farms, Inc.
W. Rogers Turner, Jr. & Matthew W. Bennett
Employer/Carrier awarded full amount of net tort recovery from third party lien
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Cooper v. Discount Auto Parts, Inc.
Andrew R. Borah
Denial of Psychiatric Care
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Hernandez v. First Financial Employee Leasing
Andrew R. Borah
Motion to stay workers' compensation proceedings denied
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Meija v. Prince General Contractor
William H. Rogner
Claim denied based upon false or misleading statements
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Rosemary Furek v. Bayonet Point Health and Rehab/Premier Group Insurance
W. Rogers Turner, Jr.
Accident not in the course and scope of employment/ Claim denied based upon false or misleading statements
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Annie Bews v. Eckerds/AIG
W. Rogers Turner, Jr.
Permanent total disability benefits denied
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