Fla. Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court on Compensability of a Workplace Shooting
The Florida Supreme Court just made it a little easier for workplace assault victims to claim workers’ compensation benefits, even if it can’t be proven that an attack was work-related.
The high court on Thursday overturned a 2023 ruling from Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeals that had narrowly defined what could be considered a compensable injury. The district appellate court, which handles all Florida workers’ compensation appeals, had erred and had essentially put words in the mouth of lawmakers who drafted the current version of the state’s workers comp statute, the Supreme Court justices wrote in the July 9 opinion.