A closely-watched legal case involving workers’ compensation benefits, a disabled firefighter and the city of St. Petersburg is now before the Florida Supreme Court, which added it to its list of high-profile cases because of extensive public and media attention, reports The Tampa Bay Times.
At the center of the case is Bradley Westphal, a former St. Pete firefighter who suffered a catastrophic spinal injury while moving furniture at a fire in 2009. As the Tampa Bay Times’ Mark Puente has reported, Westphal sued the city after it stopped paying him temporary disability benefits at a time when he did not qualify for permanent total disability status. The First District Court of Appeal ruled in Westphal’s favor and struck down as unconstitutional a provision in the state workers’ compensation law that limits temporary disability benefits to two years.
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