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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Flying Boat, Inc. d/b/a Chalks International Airlines v. Alberto et al

23 FLW D2633

(4th DCA) Plaintiff, an employee of defendant was killed when the employer's sea plane crashed into the navigatable waters of Key West Harbor, in an area of commercial shipping traffic. Defendant employer sought to defend common law maritime wrongful death action asserting the exclusive remedy provisions of the Florida Workers' Compensation Act. Court determine that accident was a maritime accident and federal maritime law pre-empted Florida workers' compensation law and the Florida exclusive remedy provisions. A common law cause of action under federal maritime law is not barred by the exclusive remedy provisions of a state workers' compensation statute. See Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland, 409 U.S. 249 (1972). This sea plane crash deemed subject to Admiralty Law since the alleged wrong occurred or was located in a maritime locality (navigatable waters) and the alleged wrong bears a significant relationship to traditional maritime activity.