ALFRED JOHN, PETITIONER,

v.

GDG SERVICES, INC., ET AL., RESPONDENTS

Citator

Cited By

• Rucker v. City OF Ocala & Crawford & Co., 684 So. 2d 836 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996)
  …reasoned: “Although we note the benefits under the new wage-loss provisions may result in reduced benefits, the right to recover for industrial injuries has not been so reduced as to be effectively eliminated.”) (emphasis added), decision approved, 440 So. 2d 1286 (Fla.1983); Mahoney v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 419 So. 2d 754, 755-56 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982) (The court noted that “while Section 440.15(3)(a)l. has significantly diminished Mahoney’s recovery, it has not totally eliminated the previously recognized caus…
• Matrix Emp. Leasing, Inc. v. Hadley, 78 So. 3d 621 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011)
  …reasoned: “Although we note the benefits under the new wage-loss provisions may result in reduced benefits, the right to recover for industrial injuries- has not been so reduced as to be effectively eliminated.”) (emphasis added), decision approved, 440 So. 2d 1286 (Fla.1983). Judge Webster has recently warned about potential constitutional concerns in the context of the apportionment of benefits under section 440.15(5)(b): If, as I think will likely be the case, a significant number of injured workers receiv…
• Strohm v. The HERTZ Corporation/HERTZ Claim Mgmt., 685 So. 2d 37 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996)
  …to a permanently injured worker from benefits that the same injured worker would have received had the worker been injured earlier, does not violate right of access to courts); John v. GDG Servs., Inc., 424 So. 2d 114, 116 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982), aff'd 440 So. 2d 1286 (Fla.1983) (“Workers’ compensation provisions have long been justified as a necessary exchange — the employee trades his common-law remedy for a sure expeditious method of settling claims.”) We further hold that the statute denies neither equal pro…

Authorities Cited

• John v. GDG Servs., Inc., 424 So. 2d 114 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982)
• Mahoney v. Sears, 440 So. 2d 1285 (Fla. 1983)