Public Health Trust of Dade County v. State, Department of Management Services, Division of State Employees' Insurance

Appellant, the Public Health Trust of Dade County, (Hospital), appeals a final order of the Department of Administration. We reverse.

Ronald Goins (Goins) was injured in an automobile accident leaving him a quadriplegic. At the time of the accident, Goins’s father had family coverage under the State of Florida Self-Insurance Plan. This plan was administered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida. Because Goins was “between the ages of nineteen and twenty-three years”, the State Self-Insurance Plan would cover him if he was “enrolled in and regularly attending on a full-time basis any school,…