Florida Injury Attorney Blawg

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…

The open and obvious doctrine, as applied in Florida premises liability cases, has become a vexatious legal doctrine that is too often used to support summary judgment despite longstanding case law holding that the obvious nature of a hazard does not necessarily discharge a landowner’s duty to maintain reasonably safe premises. That is precisely what…

Lwa Florid § 440.13 gouvène dispozisyon swen medikal anba sistèm konpansasyon travayè Florid la. Anjeneral, anplwayè a ak konpayi asirans li a (kolektivman, “E/C”) egzèse yon kontwòl sibstansyèl sou swen medikal yon travayè blese. Manifestasyon ki pi enpòtan nan kontwòl sa a se dwa legal E/C a pou chwazi doktè otorize pou trete moun ki…

Florida Statute § 440.13 governs the provision of medical care under Florida’s workers’ compensation system. As a general rule, the employer and its insurance carrier (collectively, the “E/C”) exercise substantial control over an injured worker’s medical care. The most significant manifestation of this control is the E/C’s statutory right to select the claimant’s authorized treating…

El Estatuto de Florida 624.155 otorga a las personas el derecho a demandar a las compañías de seguros si gestionan de forma indebida las reclamaciones y causan perjuicios económicos. Sin embargo, las aseguradoras de compensación laboral están exentas de estas disposiciones. El artículo 440.11(4) establece lo siguiente: “Sin perjuicio de lo dispuesto en el artículo…

La Ley de Muerte por Negligencia de Florida, §§ 768.16–768.26, Estatutos de Florida, se centra en las pérdidas sufridas por los sobrevivientes individuales y crea un derecho distinto a la indemnización para cada uno. Si bien cada sobreviviente tiene un derecho independiente a la indemnización, no pueden presentar demandas por separado. En cambio, el representante…

Rear-end collisions account for more than 25 percent of all roadway motor vehicle accidents. The reflexive response is to blame the driver of the approaching vehicle – the one who strikes the vehicle ahead. Florida law reinforces this instinct by creating a rebuttable presumption of fault against the trailing driver. Gulle v. Boggs, 174 So.…

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

A core responsibility of lawyers representing clients with personal injury or property-damage claims is to maximize recovery. Conventional wisdom holds that recovery is limited to actual damages – the plaintiff cannot collect more than the loss suffered. Florida law, however, provides a pathway to expand recovery when subrogation, reimbursement, or contribution rights exist. In Despointes…

Florida’s Wrongful Death Act, §§ 768.16–768.26, Fla. Stat., focuses on the losses suffered by individual survivors and creates a distinct entitlement to damages for each one. Although each survivor has a separate claim for damages, they may not bring separate lawsuits. Rather, the decedent’s personal representative is the sole party with standing to file a…