Gulf American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Singleton

MANN, Judge.

Concrete Pavers, Inc., was engaged in paving a portion of Interstate Highway 75 north of Tampa. It owned a batch plant at which materials were stored and from which they were shipped to the job site in trucks owned by Thornton Leasing Company and operated by Thornton’s drivers. Upshaw, an employee of Concrete Pavers, Inc., was killed while working at the job site when he was run over by a truck driven by Laws, an employee of Thornton Leasing Company.

The question is whether Fla.Stat. § 440.-10(1) (1969) 1 F.S.A., makes workmen’s *721compensation an exclusive remedy and immunizes the…