District Court of Appeal of Florida

Summary judgment determining that defendant-employers are entitled to workers' compensation immunity for a job accident which killed an employee is affirmed where the evidence did not show that the employer deliberately intended to injure the decedent or engaged in conduct substantially certain to cause injury or death.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2006
• Published 08/02/2006

Judges

• WARNER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeanne C. Brady and Frank R. Brady of Brady & Brady, P.A., and Arvid J. Peterson, III of Law Offices of Arvid J. Peterson, III, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michele I. Nelson of Wicker, Smith, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Ford, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee R.D. Michaels, Inc., J. Daniel Ennis and John J. Cavo of Lane, Reese, Aulick, Summers & Ennis, P.A., Coral Gables, for appellees Oceanview Construction Corp. and Staff Leasing, Inc.