District Court of Appeal of Florida

A defendant who hires an independent contractor to perform work on rural land belonging to the defendant is not liable to an employee of that contractor who is injured when: 1) the injury occurred off the premises where the work is being done; 2) the alleged dangerous condition does not exist on the property where the work is being done; 3) any connection between the land where the work is being done and the location where the injury occurs is incidental; and 4) the defendant could not reasonably have been expected to know that there was any connection between the dangerous condition and defendant-s property.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/08/2007
• Published 02/12/2007

Judges

• WOLF, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen H. Echsner of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner, Proctor, P.A., Pensacola, and Louis K. Rosenbloum of Louis K. Rosenbloum, P.A., Pensacola, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael W. Kehoe of Fuller, Johnson & Farrell, P.A., Pensacola, for Appellee Centel Cellular.