District Court of Appeal of Florida

Order on petition for workers' compensation benefits granting plaintiff workers' compensation benefits is reversed where the parties' execution of a general release "in exchange for a lump-sum payment" in a prior tort case settled plaintiff's workers' compensation claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2005
• Published 12/14/2005

Judges

• BENTON, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward T. LeFever, Esq. and Donald M. McCathran, Jr., Esq. of Edward T. LeFever, P.A., Ocala, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martha Fornaris, Esq., Coral Gables and Bill McCabe, Esq., Longwood, for Appellee.