Supreme Court of Florida ____________
No. SC2023-1576 ____________
MOHAMMED BOUAYAD, Petitioner,
vs.
NORMANDY INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Respondents.
July 9, 2026
MUÑIZ, J.
An unknown assailant shot Mohammed Bouayad while he
walked at midnight from an inside location to an unsecured outside
location at his employer’s place of business. A judge of
compensation claims (JCC) found Bouayad eligible for workers’
compensation benefits, relying in part on this Court’s decision in
Strother v. Morrison Cafeteria, 383 So. 2d 623 (Fla. 1980). In that
case, we upheld an award of workers’ compensation benefits to a
cashier for injuries she sustained after being assaulted and robbed
by men who followed her home from work, thinking she carried cash deposits. See id. at 623-24, 628.
In the decision under review, Normandy Insurance Co. v.
Bouayad, 372 So. 3d 671 (Fla. 1st DCA 2023), the First District
Court of Appeal held Bouayad’s injuries non-compensable,
reasoning that they did not arise out of work performed by
Bouayad, as required by Florida’s workers’ compensation law. Id.
at 682; see § 440.09(1), Fla. Stat. (2018) (requiring compensation
for accidental injury “arising out of work performed in the course
and the scope of employment”). The district court also certified the
following question as one of great public importance:
Notwithstanding Strother v. Morrison Cafeteria, 383 So. 2d 623 (Fla. 1980), when an act of a third-party tortfeasor is the sole cause of an injury to an employee who is in the course and scope of employment, can the tortfeasor’s act satisfy the occupational causation element, as defined by section 440.02(36), Florida Statutes [(2018)], necessary for compensability under the Worker’s Compensation Law?
Bouayad, 372 So. 3d at 683.
We believe that the First District’s decision, which departed
from longstanding precedent governing the compensability of
injuries sustained in workplace assaults, adopted an erroneous
interpretation of the applicable statutory provisions. We also
-2- believe that, as written, the certified question improperly
incorporated a tort-based understanding of causation that is out of
place in the workers’ compensation context. Therefore, we rephrase
the certified question as follows:
When a third-party tortfeasor assaults an employee who is in the course and scope of employment, can the resulting injuries be compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Law?
Our answer to the rephrased certified question is yes, provided that
the workers’ compensation claimant can meet his burden of
establishing work-relatedness under the principles we explain in
our decision today.
I
A
While wrapping up his workday as the general manager of a
car rental business located on the premises of a hotel near Orlando
International Airport, Bouayad was shot numerous times at close
range by an assailant who emerged from a dimly lit area and who
did not rob Bouayad. The unsolved crime, captured by a
surveillance camera, took place around midnight on June 28, 2019,
while Bouayad walked under a covered, outdoor walkway from the
-3- hotel atrium (where his company’s kiosk desk was located) to an
outside office near the pool. At the end of each shift, Bouayad
carried rental agreements and cash (if any) from the kiosk to that
office. On the night in question, he worked the late shift because
he was training new hires after having recently fired three
employees (two for theft, one for drug use). Bouayad otherwise
would not have been working that shift.
Though gravely injured by the assailant, Bouayad made his
way back to the hotel atrium, where he collapsed and expressed his
belief that he had been shot by “Robert”—a reference to Robert
Aponte, who, one day earlier, had threatened to kill Bouayad’s son.
But Aponte was never charged in connection with the shooting of
Bouayad. In fact, although “[t]he shooter’s face was not clearly
visible on the video,” Bouayad, 372 So. 3d at 675, witnesses who
knew Aponte—including Bouayad’s son—opined that Aponte was
not the assailant seen on the video.
After surviving the attack, Bouayad petitioned for workers’
compensation benefits. The carrier, Respondent Normandy
Insurance Company, responded that the “[e]ntire claim [was]
denied” on the ground that “the incident did not arise out of
-4- employment,” as required by chapter 440, Florida Statutes. In the
prehearing stipulation, Normandy listed its “affirmative defense[]”
as: “[A]ssault was an intentional and personal, non-work related
event.” Post-hearing, Normandy’s more nuanced position was that
Bouayad failed his burden of establishing “arising out of,” given
that “both the identity of the shooter and the motive for the
shooting are either (1) unknown; or (2) relate to a non-work related
family dispute.” In Normandy’s view, the record thus supported
only one of two conclusions: that the shooting was Aponte-related
or had some other non-work connection.
B
At the final hearing, Bouayad of course attempted to establish
that the shooting was “work related.” He did more than just
present evidence suggesting that Aponte “was not the shooter.”
Bouayad, 372 So. 3d at 675. Consistent with longstanding
workers’ compensation precedent, Bouayad also introduced
evidence regarding the risks and hazards of his employment,
including the nature of his job duties, his work hours, and the
location of the business (in a high-turnover hotel near the airport,
where the crime rate was higher than near Bouayad’s residence).
-5- Based on these and other factors, Bouayad’s experts concluded that
he “faced an increased risk of becoming a crime victim when at
work.” Id. One expert also testified that “the dimly lit area and the
surrounding vegetation along the walkway between the kiosk and
the office . . . contributed to Bouayad becoming a crime victim while
at work.” Id. at 675-76.
Normandy in turn introduced testimony of its own experts.
The takeaways from that testimony were: “the shooting was a
targeted attack” and “not a robbery”; the risk of violent crime was
higher near Bouayad’s residence than near the hotel; “the
lighting . . . was sufficient” along the walkway; and Bouayad “was
not at an increased risk of crime at the hotel.” Id. at 676.
After a final merits hearing, the JCC eventually issued an
amended order awarding benefits to Bouayad. In that order, the
JCC framed the sole issue as whether Bouayad’s “injuries arose out
of his employment.” The JCC then explained why this Court’s 1980
decision in Strother—an assault and robbery case in which the
“arising out of” requirement was satisfied—remained “good law.”
The JCC next set forth his findings of fact and conclusions of
law. Among other things, the JCC found that Bouayad “was
-6- walking alone in an unsecured area” and that “the area from which
the shooter emerged . . . was dark,” making Bouayad “more
vulnerable to an unexpected attack.” The JCC accepted—as
“consistent with the evidence”—the opinion of one of Bouayad’s
experts that the work environment presented “enhanced risks of
injury.” Accordingly, the JCC concluded that Bouayad’s
“employment substantially contributed to the risk of an attack and
to risks [to] which [he] would not normally be exposed.” In doing
so, the JCC also noted specific risks of Bouayad’s job duties,
including potential retaliation from fired employees.
But the JCC also accepted the opinion of one of Normandy’s
experts, who opined that the attack was “targeted violence.” Based
on that opinion (and the expert’s reasoning), as well as the time of
day of the attack and the assailant’s hiding spot, the JCC inferred
that the assailant knew Bouayad would be working the late shift
and knew his end-of-shift walking route.
In the end, the JCC concluded that Bouayad “established [that
his] injuries arose out of his employment.” Specifically, the JCC
found that “by the greater weight of the evidence, the reason for the
targeted attack was more likely than not related to the termination
-7- of a prior employee(s) or other job related issue rather than the
incident with Robert Aponte” or “personal reasons.”1 The JCC
further concluded that the attack was “facilitated by the work
environment.” Lastly, the JCC explained why workers’
compensation case law supported a finding of compensability.
C
The First District vacated the JCC’s order on appeal, reasoning
as follows. The district court began by narrowly defining “work
performed,” observing that, at the time of the shooting, Bouayad
was performing the “work” of “walking between two of [his
employer’s] facilities.” Bouayad, 372 So. 3d at 679. From there,
the district court explained that, although Bouayad was shot while
performing the duty of walking, “the walking itself” did not “cause
Bouayad to suffer injuries from a shooting.” Id. In other words, to
prevail, Bouayad would have had to show that “he was shot as a
direct result of the walking (arising out of).” Id. at 680 (bold
emphasis in original). But Bouayad could not meet that burden,
1. The JCC alternatively explained why the injuries were compensable even if the attack was Aponte-related, a robbery gone bad, or a random act of violence.
-8- according to the district court, because “it was the act of the
shooter that caused his injuries.” Id. So the district court held that
Bouayad’s injuries were non-compensable. Near the end of its
opinion, the district court faulted “Strother and the decisions that
follow it” for “import[ing] a risk exposure element into the analysis
of occupational causation—contrary to the Legislature’s express
intent for occupational causation to turn on whether the work
performed caused the employee’s injury.” Id. at 683.
Judge Kelsey dissented, arguing that the majority wrongly
departed from Strother and the First District’s own precedents.
According to Judge Kelsey, the compensability determination turns
on whether Bouayad’s workplace exposed him “to an increased
hazard of becoming a crime victim.” Id. at 687 (Kelsey, J.,
dissenting). Surveying the case law, Judge Kelsey concluded that
“[t]o any extent that it is necessary for claimants injured by
workplace crimes to show work-connectedness, . . . the showing is
made by demonstrating increased hazards or exposure to risk.” Id.
at 692. And Judge Kelsey opined that Bouayad made that showing.
Id. at 693.
After the First District denied Bouayad’s motion for rehearing
-9- en banc, we accepted jurisdiction based on the certified question.
Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
II
The certified question grows out of the First District’s reading
of the phrase “arising out of work performed in the course and the
scope of employment” in section 440.09(1), the workers’
compensation statute’s coverage provision. Bouayad argues,
among other things, that the district court’s reading of the statute
wrongly focuses on “the physical mechanics of one’s specific work
task,” causing the district court to err.
For its part, Normandy does not attempt to defend the First
District’s reading of the statute. Indeed, Normandy does not argue
(nor did Normandy ever argue below) that the statute looks to a
discrete work task and whether that task is “itself” what “cause[d]”
the injury. See Bouayad, 372 So. 3d at 679. Accordingly,
Normandy does not suggest that the act of “walking” was the only
relevant “work performed” by Bouayad. Nor does Normandy argue
that injuries “caused” by third-party tortfeasors are non-
compensable. Instead, Normandy agrees with Bouayad that
- 10 - compensability for workplace assaults “turns on proof of work-
relatedness”—a standard that courts have long employed in
workers’ compensation cases. Normandy simply argues that the
JCC’s findings regarding work-relatedness lacked competent,
substantial evidence and that the shooting resulted from a
personal, non-work-related risk.
To address the certified question, which hinges on statutory
interpretation, we begin with the text of the two statutory provisions
at the heart of the parties’ dispute. First, the workers’
compensation coverage provision, section 440.09(1), says: “The
employer must pay compensation or furnish benefits required by
this chapter if the employee suffers an accidental compensable
injury or death arising out of work performed in the course and the
scope of employment.” § 440.09(1), Fla. Stat. (2018) (emphasis
added). In this case, it is undisputed that Bouayad’s shooting
occurred in the course and scope of his employment; only the
statute’s “arising out of” element is contested here.
Second, section 440.02(36), located in the “definitions” section
of chapter 440, says: “ ‘Arising out of’ pertains to occupational
- 11 - causation. An accidental injury or death arises out of employment if
work performed in the course and scope of employment is the major
contributing cause of the injury or death.” § 440.02(36), Fla. Stat.
(2018) (emphasis added). 2
The version of the coverage provision (section 440.09(1)) at
issue here dates to 1994 amendments to Florida’s workers’
compensation law. See ch. 93-415, §§ 2, 5, Laws of Fla. 3 Before
those amendments, the coverage provision read: “Compensation
shall be payable under this chapter in respect of disability or death
of an employee if the disability or death results from an injury
2. The First District concluded that the need to undertake the statutory “major contributing cause” analysis was not triggered in this case, because Bouayad failed to establish any occupational causation at all. See Bouayad, 372 So. 3d at 678 (no need to consider the relative contribution of non-work causes proven by the carrier until the claimant has “satisfied his burden of showing that his injury occurred in the course and scope of employment and arose out of the work performed”). Because the parties have focused their arguments on the threshold question of how to establish the arising out of/occupational causation element in the first instance, we too will forgo further discussion of the statutory term “major contributing cause.”
3. The amendments were passed in 1993 but did not go into effect until January 1, 1994. See ch. 93-415, § 112, Laws of Fla. Consistent with the decision below, we refer to the amendments as the 1994 amendments.
- 12 - arising out of and in the course of employment.” § 440.09(1), Fla.
Stat. (1991) (emphasis added). Before the 1994 amendments, the
definitions section of chapter 440 did not address the phrase
“arising out of.”
Although the First District did not engage in a close textual
comparison of the workers’ compensation law before and after the
1994 amendments, the court suggests that its analysis turned
largely on its interpretation of the phrases “work performed” and
“occupational causation,” which became a part of the statute on
January 1, 1994. As we have explained, the district court started
from the premise that “[t]he only work activity performed by
Bouayad at the time of the shooting was walking from the kiosk to
the outer office while carrying a rental agreement.” Bouayad, 372
So. 3d at 682. And it then concluded that there was no
“occupational causation” because “Bouayad’s walking in the
performance of his work did not cause him to suffer injuries from a
shooting.” Id. at 680 n.2.
We are not persuaded that the statutory text supports the
First District’s narrow focus on the task performed at the time of
injury or the First District’s view of causation in the workers’
- 13 - compensation context. Given the Legislature’s repeated use of
broad language, the better reading of “arising out of work
performed” and “occupational causation” is what courts have long
said—the accident (and resulting injuries) must have a work-
relatedness in the sense of a nexus or link to the employee’s “work”
(i.e., “job”). Cf. Taylor v. Sch. Bd. of Brevard Cnty., 888 So. 2d 1, 5
(Fla. 2004) (“The right to compensation benefits depends on one
simple test: Was there a work-connected injury?” (quoting 1 Arthur
Larson & Lex K. Larson, Larson’s Workers’ Compensation, Desk
Edition § 1.03, at 1–4 to 1–5 (2003))). Or as Bouayad puts it, “work
[performed]” “encompasses all activities a worker does for money
and includes all of the risks accompanying such work activities.”
Cf. Silberberg v. Palm Beach Cnty. Sch. Bd., 335 So. 3d 148, 155
(Fla. 1st DCA 2022) (“The supreme court early on started looking at
[the link between work and injury] through the lens of relative
risk.”).
For starters, the Legislature says that the phrase “[a]rising out
of” “pertains to occupational causation.” § 440.02(36), Fla. Stat.
This language broadly signals that the focus is on the
“occupation[],” not on a discrete work task. And the word “pertains”
- 14 - is widely understood to generally mean “relates to” or “concerns.”
For example, The American Heritage Dictionary defines “pertain,” in
part, as “[t]o have reference; relate.” Pertain, The American Heritage
Dictionary of the English Language 1352 (3d ed. 1992). We doubt
the Legislature would use such broad language to ultimately mean
something as narrow as the First District’s understanding of the
statute—i.e., that the discrete job task performed at the time of
injury must itself have caused the injury.
Other textual clues undermine the First District’s focus on an
isolated task rather than on an employee’s overall work duties and
work environment. For example, the second sentence of section
440.02(36) itself echoes the pre-amendment “arises out of
employment” language. This reinforces that the focus remains on
the “employment” and that the breadth of “work performed” is
greater than any discrete task.
Also weighing against the First District’s narrow
interpretation, particularly with respect to causation, is that the
phrase “arising out of” generally has a broad sweep, one that merely
requires some connection or link. An injury “arising out of work
performed” is not synonymous with an injury “caused by work
- 15 - performed,” certainly not from a tort-causation standpoint. Cf.
Blish v. Atlanta Cas. Co., 736 So. 2d 1151, 1153 (Fla. 1999)
(explaining that, in the PIP phrase “arising out of the use of a motor
vehicle,” the clause “ ‘arising out of’ does not mean ‘proximately
caused by,’ but has a much broader meaning,” one that merely
requires “some nexus between the motor vehicle and the injury”
(emphasis omitted) (quoting Gov’t Emps. Ins. Co. v. Novak, 453 So.
2d 1116, 1119 (Fla. 1984))). For example, if someone says that
litigation “arose out of” an accident, it does not mean that the
accident “caused” the litigation. It simply means that the litigation
emanated from the accident.
Here, in repeatedly framing the act of “walking” as the only
relevant “work performed” and in concluding that that discrete task
must “itself” have “cause[d]” the injury, the First District not only
conflated “arising out of” and “caused by,” but also misread the
statute to say “[the task] performed [at the time of injury]” rather
than just “work performed.”
Reading the section 440.09(1) coverage provision in the
broader context of the workers’ compensation law also cuts against
the First District’s interpretation. For example, section 440.39—
- 16 - titled “Compensation for injuries when third persons are liable.”—is
entirely devoted to compensability of injuries caused by third-party
tortfeasors. See generally § 440.39, Fla. Stat. (2018) (providing lien
rights to the employer/carrier if “an employee . . . is injured or
killed in the course of his or her employment by the negligence or
wrongful act of a third-party tortfeasor”). Under the First District’s
approach to occupational causation, the third-party tortfeasor—
rather than “work performed”—will always be the “cause” of the
injury, rendering the injury non-compensable in all instances.
Courts, of course, strive to read related statutory provisions
together, “in a manner that produces a harmonious whole.” Parks
v. State, 411 So. 3d 414, 418 (Fla. 2025) (citing Tsuji v. Fleet, 366
So. 3d 1020, 1025 (Fla. 2023)). The disharmony resulting from the
First District’s interpretation is yet another reason to reject that
interpretation.
Relatedly, the First District’s “causation” focus, see 372 So. 3d
at 680 (“[I]t was the act of the shooter that caused [Bouayad’s]
injuries.”), wrongly introduces tort causation into the analysis of
occupational causation. The workers’ compensation system is not a
tort system. See, e.g., § 440.015, Fla. Stat. (2018) (explaining that,
- 17 - among other things, “[t]he workers’ compensation system in Florida
is based on a mutual renunciation of common-law rights and
defenses by employers and employees alike,” and is intended to be
“an efficient and self-executing system”); see also Bouayad, 372 So.
3d at 679-80 (“No doubt the workers’ compensation system is a no-
fault system.”). Because the workers’ compensation system is not a
tort system, the relevant question here has never been whether the
third-party tortfeasor “caused” Bouayad’s injuries. Rather, the
relevant question is—as Normandy readily concedes—whether the
injuries have work-relatedness. Workplace assault cases are no
exception.
In short, the statutory text does not support the First District’s
narrow focus on the one task performed at the time of injury or the
First District’s view of “causation.” So we reaffirm the longstanding
precedents that more broadly look to work-relatedness—whether
the injury is connected to the employee’s work. We disagree with
the First District’s apparent view that the 1994 amendments to the
statutory text have undermined the occupational causation analysis
in “Strother and the decisions that follow it.” Bouayad, 372 So. 3d
at 683. Instead, we agree with both parties that—in Normandy’s
- 18 - own words—“[w]orkplace assaults are covered where the assault
relates to the employment.”
To determine work-relatedness, the “necessary inquiry” is
whether a claimant’s “accident arose out of a risk incidental to
work—whether a work risk somehow caused or contributed to the
injury.” Sentry Ins. Co. v. Hamlin, 69 So. 3d 1065, 1071 (Fla. 1st
DCA 2011). In the context of workplace assaults, one way for a
claimant to establish work-relatedness is through proof that the
assailant had a work-related criminal motive—for example, that the
injury occurred during a robbery, as in Strother. But, as an
independent basis for identifying work-relatedness, courts have
properly considered whether the overall job duties and work
environment exposed the employee to increased risks and hazards
that brought about the injury.
For example, in Lovin Mood, Inc. v. Bush, 687 So. 2d 61, 62
(Fla. 1st DCA 1997), the First District found “the necessary causal
connection between [the victim’s] injuries and her employment”
when an employee, working alone in “a store located in a somewhat
isolated area of the mall,” was raped by a customer. In Jenkins v.
- 19 - Wilson, 397 So. 2d 773 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981), the First District found
an injury compensable when a law firm secretary was abducted as
she walked after work from her work building to the parking lot and
was then raped. The assailant’s “motive for selecting [the woman]
as his victim remain[ed] unknown.” Id. at 774. The court
nonetheless held that the victim’s injury was work related because
her “employment created a hazard from which her injury arose.” Id.
at 775. Specifically, the victim “stayed late at work on the
afternoon in question and, as a consequence, was alone in the
parking lot at that later hour. Therefore, as a result of her
employment, she was more susceptible to such an attack.” Id.
Because proof of risk exposure can be sufficient to satisfy the
occupational causation requirement in workplace assault cases,
proof of a work-related motive for the assault (again, as in a
robbery) is not required. In this regard, we agree with this
observation by the First District in Santizo-Perez v. Genaro’s Corp.,
138 So. 3d 1148 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014):
[C]ourts can hyper focus on motive of a third party causing injury to an employee, ignoring a dangerous environment that also facilitated the injury. As Larson’s points out, “[t]he error here is a simple one: The court assumes that the claimant must prove both that the
- 20 - environment increased the risk of the attack and that it was motivated by something related to the employment. The correct rule is that either one or the other is sufficient to establish the causal link.” 1 Lex K. Larson, Larson’s Workers’ Compensation § 8.01 [1][b] (rev. ed 2013).
Id. at 1150 n.4 (second alteration in original) (bold emphasis in
original).
To be sure, precedent shows that not all workplace assaults
are compensable. For example, in San Marco Co. v. Langford, 391
So. 2d 326, 326-27 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980), the First District
concluded that an employee-on-employee shooting did not satisfy
the “arising out of” requirement where it was “clear” from the
evidence “that the assault . . . was the result of personal animosity”
and that the employment had contributed nothing to the assault.
As a predicate to its conclusion, the court favorably cited the
following observation by Professor Larson: “When the animosity or
dispute that culminates in an assault is imported into the
employment from claimant’s domestic or private life, and is not
exacerbated by the employment, the assault does not arise out of
the employment under any test.” Id. (quoting 1 A. Larson, The Law
of Workmen’s Compensation, s. 11.21 (1978)); cf. Silberberg, 335
- 21 - So. 3d at 155 (recognizing that “there is no compensability” where
“the risk of accident comes exclusively from personal factors” (citing
Hamlin, 69 So. 3d at 1070)).
In this case, Bouayad introduced evidence attempting to
establish the dangers associated with some of his “work” duties
(e.g., firing employees, carrying cash late at night, etc.) and with the
environment of the job. Based on that evidence, the JCC declined
to find that the risk of injury in this case was “distinctly (or wholly)
personal in nature”—i.e., that the risk was one that Bouayad
“imported into the workplace.” Hamlin, 69 So. 3d at 1070. Instead,
the JCC concluded in part that Bouayad’s “employment
substantially contributed to the risk of an attack and to risks [to]
which [he] would not normally be exposed.” The First District
summarily dismissed that evidence as “not provid[ing] competent,
substantial evidence to show that the work performed by
Bouayad—walking between two parts of his employer’s premises—
caused the injuries he suffered in the shooting.” Bouayad, 372 So.
3d at 682. We believe that the First District erred by categorically
refusing to consider whether Bouayad’s risk exposure evidence
satisfied the statute’s occupational causation requirement.
- 22 - We also disagree with Normandy’s argument that Bouayad
cannot prevail because (1) the JCC found that he was the victim of
a targeted assault and (2) Bouayad has failed to establish the
reason for the assault. That is just another way of arguing that
Bouayad must prove a work-related motive for the assault, a
premise we have rejected. Again, the test is whether Bouayad
established that the “accident arose out of a risk incidental to
work—whether a work risk somehow caused or contributed to the
injury.” Hamlin, 69 So. 3d at 1071. He is not required to more
narrowly establish that—in Normandy’s words—“being the victim of
a targeted attempted murder is a hazard associated with
employment . . . at rental car agencies.”
III
To sum up, we have rephrased the certified question as
follows:
When a third-party tortfeasor assaults an employee who is in the course and scope of employment, can the resulting injuries be compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Law?
Our answer to the rephrased certified question is yes, provided that
the claimant can meet his burden of establishing work-relatedness
- 23 - under the principles we have explained in our opinion today. In
particular, we repeat that one way for a claimant to establish work-
relatedness in such cases is to prove that his overall job duties and
work environment exposed him to an increased risk of assault.
Accordingly, we quash the First District’s decision on review in
Bouayad and remand for the First District to conduct a proper
competent, substantial evidence review, one applying the correct
legal standard.
It is so ordered.
COURIEL, C.J., and LABARGA, GROSSHANS, FRANCIS, and SASSO, JJ., concur. TANENBAUM, J., recused.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED.
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal Certified Great Public Importance & Direct Conflict of Decisions
First District - Case No. 1D2021-1717
Michael J. Winer of the Winer Law Group, Tampa, Florida, and Charles Smith of C.W. Smith Law, P.A., Orlando, Florida,
for Petitioner
William H. Rogner of HR Law, Orlando, Florida,
for Respondent Normandy Insurance Company
- 24 - Bob Burke, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Megan Oliva of Bichler & Longo, PLLC, Maitland, Florida,
for Amicus Curiae Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group
Mark A. Touby of Touby, Chait & Sicking, P.L., Coral Gables, Florida,
for Amicus Curiae Florida Workers’ Advocates
Mark L. Zientz of the Law Offices of Mark L. Zientz, P.A., Aventura, Florida,
for Amici Curiae Teamsters Local 385, Teamsters Local 79, Teamsters Local 991, Teamsters Local 947, Teamsters Local 512, Teamsters Local 769, Teamsters Joint Council #75, IBEW Local 177, International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Local 435, and North Florida Building and Construction Trades Council
Geoffrey Bichler and Megan Oliva of Bichler & Longo, PLLC, Maitland, Florida,
for Amicus Curiae Florida State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police
- 25 -