Supreme Court of Florida

County employees who work at different physical locations for different departments, have different supervisors, and perform different duties and functions in their primary assignments fall within the unrelated works exception to workers' compensation immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/06/2006
• Published 04/06/2006

Judges

• PARIENTE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin E. Leach of Feiler, Leach and McCarron, PL, Coral Gables, Florida, for Petitioner., Melinda L. McNichols, Miami, Florida, on behalf of the School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida;  and Margaret E. Sojourner of Langston, Hess, Bolton, Znosko and Shepard, Maitland, Florida, on behalf of Florida Defense Lawyers Association, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Ginsburg, Miami-Dade County Attorney, Jeffrey P. Ehrlich, and Susan Torres, Assistant County Attorneys, Miami, Florida, for Respondent.