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.

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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.