JACARANDA MANOR v. RANDOLPH

No. 1D99-1232.

755 So.2d 781 (2000)

JACARANDA MANOR and Crawford & Company, Appellants, v. Mary RANDOLPH, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 12, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack A. Weiss and Mitchell R. Golden of Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal & Banker, P.A., St. Petersburg, for Appellants.

Robert W. Schoenfelder, St. Petersburg, for Appellee.


ALLEN, J.

The appellants challenge a workers' compensation order by which the judge rejected an expert medical advisor's opinion and instead accepted the opinions of two treating doctors, based in part on their greater expertise and familiarity with the claimant's condition. We conclude that it was thereby permissible for the judge to determine that the statutory presumption of correctness with regard to the expert medical...

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