BRIAN ANTHONY MORRIS, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Anderson v. Wales Indus. & Gallagher Bassett Servs., 688 So. 2d 379 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997)
  …ition was not compensable if the medical evidence showed that it resulted from emotional or stress factors, rather than from the physical injuries. Thames v. Santa Rosa County Jail, 639 So. 2d 95 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994); City of Miami Beach v. Morantes, 633 So. 2d 491 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994); Egan v. Florida Atl. Univ., 610 So. 2d 585 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992). The JCC concluded that the medical evidence provided competent, substantial evidence for denying benefits. To the contrary, however, Dr. Guthrie repeatedly decline…
• Thames v. Santa Rosa Cnty. Jail, 639 So. 2d 95 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994)
  …ld result from only a mental stimulus. The statutory exclusion is thus not avoided merely upon an incident which involves physical injury, where the physical injury is not a cause of the mental or nervous injury. See City of Miami Beach v. Morantes, 633 So. 2d 491 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994). Based on the evidence presented, the judge was entitled to find that the claimant’s back injury was not a cause of his psychiatric problems. Because this mental or nervous injury was due to fright or excitement only, the claim…
• Goodman v. BFI OF Fla., Inc., 755 So. 2d 191 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000)
  …ological injury due to “stress, fright, or excitement only” is not compensable. See, e.g., City of Holmes Beach v. Grace, 598 So. 2d 71 (Fla.1992); Thames v. Santa Rosa County Jail, 639 So. 2d 95 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994); City of Miami Beach v. Morantes, 633 So. 2d 491 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994). We direct the JCC to determine on remand whether Goodman’s PTSD resulted from stress, fright, or excitement only, or whether it was increased or prolonged in any manner as a result of the shoulder injury. To establish the latter…

Authorities Cited

• Marblee Seabrook v. State, 629 So. 2d 129 (Fla. 1993)
• London v. State, 623 So. 2d 527 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993)
• Porter v. State, 629 So. 2d 834 (Fla. 1993)