The legal remedies for a cashier and a customer slipping on the same banana peel and breaking the same shoulder in the same grocery store are vastly different in Florida.
The worker is funneled into an administrative system where the employer’s workers’ compensation insurance policy dictates who the doctors will be and limits pay to two-thirds of regular take-home pay while unable to work. Any dispute is heard by a judge of compensation claims.
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