Florida Injury Attorney Blawg

Florida’s workers’ compensation system is beneficial to injured workers in many ways. Chief among them is the guarantee of medical care and wage‑replacement benefits to injured workers without regard to fault. (This does not necessarily mean carriers and injured workers do not dispute the scope and adequacy of benefits.) The workers’ compensation system also contains…

In May 2026, the Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a consequential opinion in Haddad v. Lyft Florida, Inc., fundamentally reshaping the scope of tort claims that may be brought against transportation network companies in Florida. Haddad effectively wiped out the entire suite of common‑law causes of action traditionally asserted against rideshare companies, unless the…

The State of Florida obligates employers to secure and provide workers’ compensation benefits to their employees, as mandated by section 440.10, Florida Statutes. Employers typically satisfy this obligation by maintaining an active workers’ compensation insurance policy that ensures coverage for compensable workplace injuries. Section 440.10(b) goes so far as to provide that where a “contractor…

In 2011, the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature targeted some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens by enacting legislation that curtailed the legal rights of Medicaid recipients. Specifically, it imposed a cap on the amount of noneconomic damages—such as pain and suffering—that Medicaid recipients may recover in medical negligence cases. The pertinent provisions of that legislation, codified…

Severe brachial plexus injury cases often turn on a single, sharply contested question: what caused the nerve damage—obstetrical forces applied by the physician, or the natural forces of labor itself? In a recent Florida medical malpractice case involving a catastrophic, permanent five-root brachial plexus injury, the plaintiff challenged the admissibility of the defense’s causation theory…

Our law firm has written extensively about what has infamously become known as the “Free Kill” law.” More formally, the law is codified at section 768.21(8), Florida Statutes, a provision of Florida’s Wrongful Death Act, ss. 768.16-768.26. Florida’s Wrongful Death Act traces its origins to an English statute enacted in 1846 known as Lord Campbell’s Act. That landmark legislation…

Our firm has handled its share of catastrophic injury cases in both the workers’ compensation system and the civil law system (i.e., personal injury cases). Because the needs of those injured—both now and in the future—are critically important, we must address their immediate needs while also planning for the long term. While the underlying considerations…

Can a Worker Injured Outside of Florida Be Eligible for Florida Workers’ Compensation Benefits? Under § 440.09(1)(d), Fla. Stat., an employee injured outside of Florida may still be entitled to Florida workers’ compensation benefits if certain jurisdictional requirements are met: “If an accident happens while the employee is employed elsewhere than in this state, which…

Our office was recently contacted by an elderly gentleman whose wife was brutally murdered in her South Florida home in 2019 by a deliveryman employed by a large corporation. The assailant was subsequently convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The gentleman retained his sons—both licensed Florida attorneys—to pursue compensation from the…

For more than thirty years, lawyers and judges have misapplied the statute of limitations in Florida workers’ compensation cases. Undoubtedly, this error has deprived countless injured workers of benefits to which they were entitled. In Estes v. Palm Beach County School District, an opinion issued on March 23, 2026, the First District Court of Appeal…