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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Patrick et al v. Palm Beach County School Board

31 FLW D929

Plaintiff teacher was injured by a student who had a propensity for violence. Personal injury action filed against her employer, the school board, alleging that the school board concealed or misrepresented records of past misconduct and placed the child in school not warning the teachers of such past misconduct. Court determined that lower court erred in dismissing the complaint based upon the exclusive remedy provisions of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Act.