Case Name: SIMON SEZ, INC. and First Alliance Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Maria FERRER, Caribbean Cutting Service and Atlas General Agency, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-09-27
Citations: 567 So. 2d 51
Docket Number: No. 89-3268
Parties: SIMON SEZ, INC. and First Alliance Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Maria FERRER, Caribbean Cutting Service and Atlas General Agency, Appellees.
Judges: SMITH, WIGGINTON and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 567
Pages: 51–52

Head Matter:
SIMON SEZ, INC. and First Alliance Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Maria FERRER, Caribbean Cutting Service and Atlas General Agency, Appellees.
No. 89-3268.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Sept. 27, 1990.
John F. McMath, P.A., Miami, for appellants.
Barry Diamond, P.A., Miami, Joseph C. Segor, Miami, for appellee/Maria Ferrer.
Sylvia Krainin of Adams, Kelley, Kro-nenberg & Kelley, Miami, for appel-lees/Caribbean Cutting Service & Atlas General Agency.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellants, the employer and carrier, challenge the award of temporary partial disability (TPD) benefits and medical care. We agree with appellant that the claimant failed to prove her injury was an occupational disease. The fact that appellant did not object to the treating physician's statement that carpal tunnel syndrome, the claimant's injury in this case, is often an occupational disease did not satisfy the claimant's burden of proof set forth in section 440.151, Florida Statutes (1987). See Broward Industrial Plating, Inc. v. Weiby, 394 So.2d 1117 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981). However, the alternative basis given for recovery, repeated trauma under Festa v. Teleflex, Inc., 382 So.2d 122 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980) is supported by competent and substantial evidence. Accordingly, the order of compensation is AFFIRMED.
SMITH, WIGGINTON and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.