A Florida police officer's diagnosis of "essential" hypertension did not render her ineligible to rely on the statutory presumption of occupational causation available to law enforcement personnel suffering from "arterial" or "cardiovascular" hypertension, the state 1st District Court of Appeals ruled last week. The case was Williams v. City of Orlando, No. 1D11-4178. Claimant's attorney Kelli Biferie Hastings of Bichler, Clelland, Oliver, Kelley, Hastings, Longo, Spears & Parrish explained that "hypertension" is "a measure of pressure in the arteries," so "it's always arterial...
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