Wal-Mart Store 0649 v. Kirksey
District Court of Appeal of Florida
1Per curiam
Appellants, the employer and carrier, appeal a worker’s compensation order finding the medical condition of Ingabarg Kirksey, the appellee and claimant below, to be com-pensable. Because the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) erred in admitting the testimony of claimant’s treating physician, we reverse. We do not remand for further proceedings, however, because even if admissible, the testimony of the treating physician, which was the only medical evidence causally connecting claimant’s complaints to a fall at work, was not sufficient evidence of causation on which the JCC could have found…
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