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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Winn Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Parks
620 So.2d 798 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993), 18 FLW D1488, June 23, 1993
Claimant was en route home after work when he was
kidnapped and forced to return to his place of
employment and open the safe. Thereafter, the claimant
was killed. Court determined this to be a compensable
accident under the workers' compensation statute and
accordingly, the employer was immune from a tort suit
under the exclusivity provisions of the Florida
workers' compensation law. A work related assault is
covered by workers' compensation. It is unnecessary to
prove that an injury occurred within the time and space
limits of employment so long as the injury had its
origin from work related activity. In this case, the
claimant was attacked because he had the keys to the
store and the combination to the safe and could turn
the alarm off. Therefore, workers' compensation
benefits were paid since the origin or cause of the
accident was the claimant's employment.
