changed hands was the principal— one medical expert put the fraction at ninety percent — cause of Rafael Guzman’s carpal tunnel syndrome and consequent disability. Nobody has called this conclusion or the findings on which it rests into question, and the panel today unanimously approves these findings and that conclusion. II. The major contributing cause amendments were modeled after similar provisions in Oregon law. See Letter from Lawton Chiles, Governor, State of Florida, to Stephen R. Wise, Florida State Representative (Oct. 22, 1993) (on file with the Florida State Archives). It is therefore appropriate to look to Oregon’s major contributing cause provisions, as definitively construed by the Oregon Supreme Court, for guidance. See State v. Aiuppa, 298 So.2d 391, 394 (Fla.1974) (<HOLDING>); Flammer v. Patton, 245 So.2d 854, 858
holding that the language of the statute and the courts duty to apply the statute as written requires the court to interpret the statute to apply when the prisoner is sentenced without regard to the institution where the prisoner is incarcerated after the sentencing holding that when a statute is patterned after a similar provision in another states statute it is proper to resort to judicial constructions placed on the statute by the courts of the state whose statute provided the model in determining the proper construction   holding that the statute is mandatory holding that the title of the statute did not limit the reach of the statute holding that the defendant could not be sentenced under the patterned sex offender statute if his offense occurred before the statute became effective