Legal Question in Workers Comp in Florida

injured on job

if you are injured on the job because they failed to provide safety equipment can you have a lawsuit,i have a severe eye injury and could lose my eyesight or eye, im getting workers comp


Asked on 5/03/09, 10:37 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jane-Robin Wender Wender Law, P.A.

Re: injured on job

In general, you are limited to getting workers' compensation, even if your employer was negligent. Workers' compensation in Florida is a no fault system, so negligence is normally not a factor. There is an exception, one that is extremely difficult to prove, that being that the employer knew that the work had a substantial certainty of causing death or great bodily injury.

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Answered on 5/04/09, 8:05 am


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