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HANSON v. GIMROCK CONST., INC.

No. 3D01-143.

807 So.2d 167 (2002)

Karl HANSON, Appellant, v. GIMROCK CONSTRUCTION, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 13, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. William Allen, Jr. (Fort Lauderdale), for appellant.

Moye, O'Brien, O'Rourke, Hogan & Pickert and Stephen W. Pickert and Aaron E. Leviten (Maitland), for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and GERSTEN, JJ.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Hanson fell and was injured while working as a crane operator on his employer's barge in the Caribbean sea. Although, because Hanson was almost certainly a "seaman" and thus subject to the Jones Act, see Lauritzen v. Larsen, 345 U.S. 571, 73 S.Ct. 921, 97 L.Ed. 1254 (1953), a Florida worker's compensation claim almost certainly did not lie, see § 440.09(2), Fla. Stat. (1994); Brown v. Glabvo Dredging...

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