Disability Law

No WC Liability = No WC Immunity

By David A. McCranie, Esq.

Although we can't tell the facts of the case from the Third DCA's brief opinion in City of Miami v. Gutierrez, decided on 3/12/2008, because of the First DCA cases and the statute cited in the opinion we can surmise that the case involved the estate of an employee suing his employer in tort for injuries sustained while the employee was engaged in some type of "recreational and social activity" connected with his employment.  The Third DCA held that since the employee was not in the course of his employment at the time of his accident, the employer was not entitled to immunity from tort liability. 

Full post as published by Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Blog on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).