Case Name: David RAKER, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN CONTRACTORS and Cigna, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1994-10-24
Citations: 643 So. 2d 1211
Docket Number: No. 93-3066
Parties: David RAKER, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN CONTRACTORS and Cigna, Appellees.
Judges: MINER and WOLF, JJ., and WENTWORTH, Senior Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 643
Pages: 1211–1211

Head Matter:
David RAKER, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN CONTRACTORS and Cigna, Appellees.
No. 93-3066.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Oct. 24, 1994.
Laura L. Ferrante, Jacksonville, for appellant.
Joanna K. Fone of McConnaughhay, Roland, Maida & Cherr, P.A., Jacksonville, for appellees.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Claimant David Raker has appealed an order of the judge of compensation claims denying a claim for diagnostic testing of impotence occurring subsequent to a compensa-ble accident. The judge apparently denied the claim based on a single statement by the claimant's medical expert that the recommended tests would not themselves reveal the cause of the impotence. However, in the context of the expert's entire testimony, this statement clearly means that the tests are a necessary preliminary to other diagnostic analyses which could prove or disprove a causal relationship.
The order herein appealed is therefore reversed, and the case remanded with directions to award the diagnostic testing sought by the claimant below.
MINER and WOLF, JJ., and WENTWORTH, Senior Judge, concur.