Workers' Compensation
Listed below is McConnaughhay, Coonrod, Pope, Weaver & Stern, P.A.'s workers' compensation case law database. The database dates back until 1971 and includes over 5500 workers' compensation court decisions.
To view the case summaries, select one of the general topics listed below.
Employers Ins. of Wausau v. Abernathy
442 So.2d 953, (Fla., Dec 15, 1983)
The justification for the exclusive remedy provisions
of the Workers' Compensation Act for the employer is
the substitution of something in place of civil
liability a quid pro quo. The duty to provide workers'
compensation benefits supplants tort liability to those
injured on the job. If the duty to provide such
coverage does not exist, then one has no reason to
expect immunity from wrongdoings. The Supreme Court
ruled that an employee of a subcontractor can sue his
employer's subcontractor for damages arising out of the
subcontractor's negligence.