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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Eller v. Shova
630 So.2d 537 (Fla. 1993)
Statutory amendment raising degree of negligence
necessary to maintain civil cause of action against a
"policy making" co-employee from gross negligence to
culpable negligence determined by court to be
constitutional. The statutory change did not abolish a
cause of action and workers' compensation provides a
reasonable alternative. Accordingly, the amendment
does not violate the access to court provisions of the
Florida constitution. Cause of action filed by husband
of a convenience store manager who had been killed
during a robbery alleging negligence on the part of the
chairman of the board, president, and regional manager
of the convenience store in failing to equip the store
with adequate security was properly dismissed.