POLK NURSERY CO., INC. v. RILEY

Nos. AM-284, AM-285.

433 So.2d 1233 (1983)

POLK NURSERY COMPANY, INC., and Florida Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Connie L. RILEY and Carolyn L. Lord, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.H. Lane and John K. Vreeland of Lane, Trohn, Bertrand & Williams, Lakeland, for appellants.

Michael B. Murphy of Stanley, Wines, Bennett, Murphy & Spanjers, Auburndale, for appellees.


BOOTH, Judge.

This cause is before us on consolidated appeals from orders in workers' compensation proceedings, awarding compensation benefits for physical and psychiatric injuries claimed to have resulted from poisoning by the organic pesticide "Temik."

On July 20, 1981, Connie Riley and Carolyn Lord suddenly became ill while fertilizing potted plants which had been treated three and a half weeks previously with the highly toxic pesticide Temik. Claimants...

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