STATE EX REL. TAYLOR

v.

MILLEDGE

Citator

Cited By

• Prahl Bros., Inc. v. Phillips, 429 So. 2d 386 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983)
  …denied, 397 So. 2d 780 (Fla.1981). However, the underlying physical injury or trauma need not be itself disabling for the ensuing mental or nervous injury to be compensable. See Watson v. Melman Inc., 106 So. 2d 433 (Fla. 3d DCA 1958), cert. denied 111 So. 2d 40 (Fla.1959). In Watson the claimant was struck on the head by a cardboard spool; although the blow produced no visible physical injury other than a slight discoloration of the skin, the claimant’s ensuing psychiatric impairment was nevertheless comp…
• City OF Holmes Beach v. Grace, 598 So. 2d 71 (Fla. 1992)
  …kelihood that it played a part in the ensuing mental disorder. However, the fact that the physical injury is relatively minor will not necessarily result in the denial of compensation. Watson v. Melman, Inc., 106 So. 2d 433 (Fla.1958), cert. denied, 111 So. 2d 40 (Fla.1959), is a good illustration of a case in which the claimant's mental or nervous condition was properly compensa-ble even though her physical injury was minimal. In Watson, the claimant was working in her employer’s place of business when a fe…
• Brown v. Winn-Dixie Montgomery, Inc., 469 So. 2d 155 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985)
  …hiatric disorders which are caused by a blow or some other type of physical contact are covered injuries under Chapter 440 even where the physical contact is relatively minor. In Watson v. Melman, Inc., 106 So. 2d 433 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1958), cert. den. 111 So. 2d 40 (Fla.1959), the employee was working at a sewing machine when one of her co-workers tossed a light cardboard spool (weighing 8V2 ounces) towards a nearby trash receptacle. Instead, the spool struck the claimant behind the ear. “[Ojther than a slight…