Smith v. Piezo Technology & Prof. Adm'rs

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing statutory action under section 440.205, Florida Statutes (1979), for wrongful discharge where discharge is in retaliation for employee's pursuing workers' compensation claim
• Florida does not recognize an exception to the at-will doctrine in the form of a common-law tort for retaliatory discharge
• construction of statute based on provision deleted by amendment prior to enactment will be avoided
• courts must assume that statutory provisions are intended to have some useful purpose
• Section 440.205 applies to “an employee's pursuit of a workers’ compensation claim.”
• providing little analysis, and recognizing statutory claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).