District Court of Appeal of Florida

Order of a judge of compensations claims finding claimant-firefighter's hepatitis C compensable is reversed where the finding was not supported by competent, substantial evidence since claimant did not meet the criteria necessary for a statutory presumption of compensability or establish that his hepatitis C is an occupational disease.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/31/2006
• Published 01/31/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara A. Eagan and Karen J. Cullen of Broussard, Cullen, DeGailler & Eagan, P.A., Orlando, Attorneys for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCabe of Shepherd, McCabe & Cooley, Longwood;  and Paul A. Kelley, Winter Park, Attorneys for Appellee Terry Bartlett., Lamar D. Oxford and Frank C. Wesighan of Dean, Ringers, Morgan & Lawton, Orlando, Attorneys for Appellees Orange County Fire/Rescue and Crawford and Company.