Metropolitan Dade County v. Taddia

HENDRY, Judge.

Appellant is Metropolitan Dade County, the employer and self-insurer of appellee, Louis Taddia, under the workmen’s compensation law. It appeals an order of the trial court denying appellant recovery for any of the benefits which it had paid and would *805pay in the future under its workmen’s compensation insurance coverage of the employee, Taddia.

Louis Taddia was injured through the negligence of third parties while in the course and scope of his employment in the latter part of 1976 and again in mid-1977. The back injury sustained in the 1976 accident was exacerbated by the second…