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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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City of Miami v. Olson
327 So.2d 888, (Fla.App. 3 Dist., Feb 10, 1976)
Claimant settled his workers' compensation claim with city. Thereafter, city attempted to deduct from pension benefits due amounts pain in workers' compensation benefits. Court determined that as a part of the settlement agreement under the Workers' Compensation Act, workers' compensation benefits would not be a setoff against pension benefits. Accordingly, setoff denied.In reviewing workers' compensation orders, a denial of certiorari by the Florida Supreme Court constitutes a finding that the Industrial Relations Commission had acted strictly in accordance with the law and has not departed from the essential requirements of the law.