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.
Kline v. Rubio
652 So.2d 964 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1995)
The workers' compensation exclusive remedy provisions
provide employers with immunity from suit by their
employees so long as the employer has not engaged in an
intentional act designed to result in injury or death
or that is substantially certain to result in injury or
death. The definition of an intentional act is
strictly interpreted because nearly every accident,
injury and sickness occurring in the workplace results
from someone intentionally engaging in some triggering
action. Court ruled in this instance that the
exclusive remedy doctrine precluded recovery against
employer in civil cause of action. There was no
question that the corporate defendant was negligent in
its cavalier attitude toward the safety of its
employees. However, its actions did not rise to the
level of an intentional act.
