Rabon v. Inn of Lake City, Inc.

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• holding that statutory employer status could not arise out of the subcontracting of hotel's common law duty to provide safe premises for its guests
• holding that there is “no difference in the legal effect of an express contract and a contract implied in fact.”
• stating that section 440.10(1)(b) “is expressly limited to circumstances in which a contractor sublets performance of a contractual obligation that it owes to a third party”
• finding that hotel's provision of security guards to ensure safety of its guest did not support conclusion that hotel had an express or implied-in-fact contract with its guests to provide security guard services
• hotel’s provision of security guards to ensure safety of its guests did not compel finding that guard service was contractual duty hotel owed to its customers
• summary judgment reversed because no record evidence of contractual obligation

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