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.
Baxter v. Hog Valley Volunteer Fire Department, Inc.
669 So.2d 285 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996), 21 FLW D365
Court determined that lower court erred in granting
summary judgment in regards to civil cause of action
filed by full-time fire fighter of county against
volunteer fire fighter. It was alleged that volunteer
fire fighter negligently injured professional fire
fighter of county in the process of extinguishing a
fire. Court determined that volunteer fire fighter
volunteered to a private non-profit corporation, not to
the county that employed the plaintiff/professional
fire fighter. Accordingly, court determined that
voluntary fire fighter was not an employee of the
county and therefore did not enjoy the workers'
compensation immunity provisions from a civil cause of
action. Volunteers to private non-profit corporations
are not defined as an employee under the workers'
compensation statute.
