District Court of Appeal of Florida

Summary judgment for defendant-employer on the ground of worker's compensation immunity in a personal injury suit brought by teacher who was injured by a student with a propensity for violence is reversed where defendant failed to establish that there were no genuine issues of material fact as to whether its behavior satisfied the intentional tort exception to workers' compensation immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/29/2006
• Published 03/29/2006

Judges

• KLEIN, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barry M. Silver, Boca Raton, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dorsey C. Miller, III of Haliczer, Pettis & Schwamm, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.