Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1992

Pike v. Pearce

Pike v. Pearce
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided June 12, 1992 · Dauksch, Diamantis, Sharp
600 So. 2d 1247; 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 6743; 1992 WL 126562 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Pike v. Pearce

Opinion of the Court

DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in a personal injury case. We reverse.

Briefly the facts are that appellant was a personal caretaker for an elderly woman who became violent and assaulted appellant and caused injury. Appellee defended the lawsuit filed by appellant, saying that by accepting checks which appellee had designated as payments under the worker’s compensation law that appellant had foregone any right to seek tort damages. Appellant denies accepting the checks as worker’s compensation benefits and says she is legally entitled to seek money damages.

There are material factual disputes in this tort case. Summary judgment is inappropriate. Holl v. Talcott, 191 So.2d 40 (Fla. 1966).

REVERSED and REMANDED.

W. SHARP and DIAMANTIS, JJ., concur.

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