FIRST SOUTHERN FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MOBILE, APPELLANT,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (12 total)

• Mkt. Food Distribs., Inc. v. Levenson, 383 So. 2d 726 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980)
  …s, had advanced to the point that an injury could have been triggered at any time during a normal torsional movement, such as rising from bed. His case is thus distinguishable from our recent decision in Cheney v. F. E. C. News Distribution Company, 382 So. 2d 1291 (Fla. 1st DCA, 1980), holding the claimant’s injury, caused by a fall on the job, compensable. Although Cheney- had suffered from recurrent symptoms of headaches and dizziness resulting from a noncompensable accident, we observed that his condition…
• Medeiros v. Residential Cmtys. OF Am., 481 So. 2d 92 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986)
  …ages, the risk of a fall and serious injury would be increased. The import of House v. Preferred Auto Leasing, 476 So. 2d 1337 (Fla. 1st DCA 1935), Lovett v. Gore Newspapers Co., 419 So. 2d 306 (Fla.1982), and Cheney v. F.E.C. News Distribution Co., 382 So. 2d 1291 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980), is to make this type of increased risk due to employment fall within the coverage of the Workers’ Compensation Act. Yet the deputy’s order contains no finding that the stairs did not expose claimant to an increased risk of injur…

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• Lilla Lovett v. Gore Newspapers Co. & Zurich Ins. Co., 419 So. 2d 306 (Fla. 1982)
  …d been in her own home. See Protectu Awning Shutter Co. v. Cline, 154 Fla. 30, 16 So. 2d 342 (1944) (fall on floor at work, caused in part by injured worker’s physical condition, was a compensable accident); Cheney v. F. E. C. News Distribution Co., 382 So. 2d 1291 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980) (fall caused by the effect of the nature of the work on claimant’s physical condition, and aggravating a pre-exist-ing condition, was compensable). “In this highly controversial area, [idiopathic falls causing injury on the job]…

Authorities Cited

• First Nat'l Bank OF Birmingham v. Dep't OF Revenue of the State of Fla., 364 So. 2d 38 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978)