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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 12:19:13+00:00

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the notice required to satisfy the knowledge exception to the thirty-day rule need not detail every facet of the injury sustained. Rather, it is sufficient that the employer have notice of an injury. See Alfonso v. MacDinton’s Rest., 515 So. 2d 243 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987); see also Roseboom v. H.T. Constructors, Inc., 527 So. 2d 234 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988); Winter Park Mem’l Hosp. v. Brown, 452 So. 2d 116 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984).
Alfonso v. Mac Dinton’s Restaurant, 515 So.2d 243 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987). Employee slipped and fell on her buttocks. More than five weeks later she reported back pain to her employer for the first time. Later that day she was admitted to the hospital for a back injury. The back claim was denied for late reporting. At trial, one of her employers admitted hearing claimant exclaim from the freezer in which the injury occurred that she had hit her arm on the freezer’s rack. The employer further indicated that he asked claimant if she was all right and that she replied she thought so. The DCA held in favor of the claimant.
The claimant’s obligation to provide notice of injury in accordance with section 440.185(1), Florida Statutes, was satisfied by the notice to the subcontractor, from which legal notice may then be imputed to T.E. James as the statutory employer. See Jack Axelrod Construction Co. v. Holcomb, IRC Order 2-3220 (August 22, 1977).
Luedke v. Play Space Services, 971 So.2d 261 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008). On previous occasions involving similar pain, the claimant thought it was work-related. The JCC ruled against the claimant. In a 2-1 decision, the 1st DCA upheld the ruling. The dissent makes good points.
Caceres v. Sedano’s Supermarkets, 138 So.3d 1224 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014). Because the date of injury in a case of repetitive trauma is generally deemed to be the last date of exposure to the trauma, see Rose v. Geico, 90 So.3d 886, 888 (Fla. 1st DCA 2012) (citing Troche v. Geico, 966 So.2d 460, 461 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007), the JCC was reversed on appeal for assuming that any report of injury more than thirty days after Claimant first had knowledge of his symptoms — i.e., the date of the initial manifestation — was too late.

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