Ivey v. City of Sarasota

This cause is before us on review of a workers’ compensation order denying a medical evaluation and remedial or palliative care for lack of evidence. The parties had earlier executed a settlement stipulating that maximum medical improvement occurred in 1988, with a 20 percent permanent impairment to the body as a whole. We reverse.

Claimant’s uncontroverted testimony was that he continues to suffer pain from the compensable accident. In Walker v. Allied Septic Tanks, 522 So.2d 456 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988), this court held that under proper circumstances, a claimant has a right to medical care prior…