Civil Lawsuit in Workers’ Compensation Case Allowed to Continue
A Circuit Court judge denied Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’ motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by the widow of a worker who died while testing a ride at the resort’s Animal Kingdom. This lawsuit is one of the rare cases where the court found that the protections given to employers in workers’… Read More »
AIDS Foundation Managers File Whistleblower Lawsuit in Florida
Three former managers of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. (AHF) have filed a whistleblower lawsuit under federal law and the Florida State Whistleblower Act against the country’s largest supplier of HIV/AIDS medical care, claiming that the company has been involved in illegal patient referral kickbacks. The managers allege that AHF has been defrauding Medicare,… Read More »
Florida Courts Wrestling with Workers’ Compensation and Issues of Fraud
Recently, a set of cases have been working through the Florida court system that deal with issues of “workers’ compensation fraud.” This loaded term has often been misclassified only as a person who is trying to defraud the workers’ compensation system; however, the cases in Florida have dealt with the question of whether a… Read More »