41 Fla. L. Weekly D584a Top of Form Workers’ compensation — Evidence — Expert medical advisor’s opinion — Presumption of correctness — Scope of presumption — Where expert medical advisor was appointed to resolve conflicting medical opinions as to whether rotator cuff repair surgery was medically necessary and, if so, whether major contributing cause of Read More »

41 Fla. L. Weekly D591aTop of Form Torts — Automobile accident — Damages — Verdict against manifest weight of evidence — New trial — Appeals — Where trial court granted additur or new trial, and additur was refused, the only issue before appellate court was propriety of order granting new trial, not propriety of the Read More »

41 Fla. L. Weekly D558aTop of Form Torts — Premises liability — Slip and fall on patch of laundry detergent that had issued from the top of a bottle that had fallen from a shelf in defendant supermarket — Use of ordinary care to maintain premises in reasonably safe condition — Trial court erred in Read More »

41 Fla. L. Weekly D557aTop of Form Employer-employee relations — Termination of employment in retaliation for filing workers’ compensation claim — Error to award employee back pay and front pay on claim that employer unlawfully retaliated against him for filing workers’ compensation claim where employee was physically unable to work prior to and after employer’s Read More »

41 Fla. L. Weekly D556aTop of Form Appeals — Timeliness — Amended final judgment had no impact on finality of original final judgment where there was no material change between the original judgment and the amended judgment — Court is without jurisdiction to consider appeal where notice of appeal was filed more that thirty days Read More »