Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Meade

This cause is before us on appeal from a workers’ compensation order awarding temporary total disability benefits with interest, temporary partial disability benefits with interest, medical benefits, medical travel, attorney fees, and costs. We reverse.

The issue raised is whether the deputy erred in concluding that claimant’s injury *878was incidental to employment and therefore compensable.

Claimant began working in Ocala for the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in June of 1984. Subsequently, claimant began to take sick leave primarily due to stress. Claimant’s supervisor…