Southern Electric, Inc. v. Spall

DREW, Justice.

The sole question presented in this workmen’s compensation case is whether the Florida Workmen’s Compensation Law1 authorizes reimbursement for damage to artificial members or prosthetic devices.

This is a case of first impression in this State but the answer is clearly discernible from the plain provisions of the Florida Law which limit coverage specifically to “personal injury or death by accident * * * and such diseases or infection as naturally or unavoidably result from such injury.”2 The act makes no provision of compensation for damages to artificial members or prosthetic…