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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Fisher v. Shenandoah Gen. Const. Co.
498 So.2d 882, 11 Fla. L. Week. 602, (Fla., Nov 26, 1986)
Supreme Court determined that employer who orders
employee to work inside a pipe which employer knows to
be filled with dangerous gas which in all probability
will result in injury to the employee does not commit
an intentional tort for purposes of the exclusive
remedy provisions of the Florida Workers' Compensation
Act. A strong probability that a certain result will
occur is different from substantial certainty and
cannot constitute intentional wrong doings. The
employer's conduct in this case did not rise to the
level of an intentional wrong doing. The court refused
to answer the question as to whether an intentional
tort by the employer would fall outside of the
exclusive remedy provisions of the Workers'
Compensation Act. Dissenting opinion.
