IN THE INTEREST OF S. W., A/K/A S. M., A CHILD

Citator

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• Doctor's Bus. Serv., Inc. v. Clark, 498 So. 2d 659 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986)
  …the roadway immediately adjacent to his employer’s premises, which hazard became a hazard of his employment and thus his accident was compensable. This court recently applied the “special hazard” exception in Petroske v. Worth Avenue Burger Place, 416 So. 2d 856 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982). There, the claimant stepped in a pot hole in the driveway which abutted her employer’s business and through which she normally entered to go to work, and was injured. Her injuries were held to be compensable though the driveway…
• Toyota OF Pensacola & Adjustco, Inc. v. Buck E. Maines, 558 So. 2d 1072 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990)
  …nd for coffee and shelter was not the exclusive means of access to the stand, this route was nonetheless the usual means of ingress and egress to and from the work site. This result is similar to that reached in Petroske v. Worth Ave. Burger Place, 416 So. 2d 856 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982), wherein claimant was injured when she fell into a pothole in a driveway abutting the employer’s premises and leading to the rear entrance. Although the employer did not own the driveway, and despite the fact it was not the sole…
• Ocean Pavilion & Atlas Gen. Agency v. Betancourt, 578 So. 2d 467 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991)
  …is place of work, the hazards of that route become the hazards of the employment. Naranja Rock Co. v. Dawal Farms, 74 So. 2d 282 (Fla.1954); Toyota of Pensacola v. Maines, 558 So. 2d 1072 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990); and Petroske v. Worth Ave. Burger Place, 416 So. 2d 856 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982). However, before a claimant is entitled to recover for his injuries, it is necessary for him to introduce evidence of a causal connection between his accident and the alleged special hazards of his employment. We agree with the E…