Weatherford v. City of Hialeah

The issue in the trial court on a complaint for declaratory judgment action was: Where an employee of a self-insured municipality, rendered permanently and totally disabled in a job-related accident, is limited by municipal law to 75% of gross salary in early retirement pension benefits including workers’ compensation benefits, may the municipality recover, in set-offs against periodic pension payments, more than the ac*681tual amount paid to the employee as a lump-sum settlement of a workers’ compensation claim? Resolution of the question requires a construction of municipal laws, an employment…