Case ID: so2d_641/html/0514-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Don Olson FIRESTONE and Gallagher Bassett Insurance, Appellants, v. Jimmy HINDS, Jr., Appellee.
    No. 93-2196.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Aug. 30, 1994.
    Nancy A. Lauten, Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal & Banker, P.A., Tampa, for appellants.
    Bill McCabe of Shepherd, McCabe & Cooley, Longwood, and Richard I. Cervelli, Naples, for appellee.
   MICKLE, Judge.

We conclude that the record contains competent substantial evidence to support the order of the judge of compensation claims.

AFFIRMED.

BARFIELD, J., concurs.

MINER, J., dissents with written opinion.

MINER, Judge,

dissenting.

Because I believe the claimant failed to establish by expert testimony a causal con-neetion between his work related accident and his complaints of hip pain, I respectfully dissent. At best, Dr. Bercaw’s overall testimony is vague, ambiguous and inconclusive, so much so that I believe it to be wholly insufficient to support a finding of causal relationship.