WHITEHEAD v. ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT.

No. 1D04-2769.

909 So.2d 344 (2005)

Joanne WHITEHEAD, Appellant, v. ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT and AIG Claim Services, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied August 29, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Keller, Esquire of Paul J. Morgan & Associates, P.A., Winter Park and Bill McCabe, Esquire of Shepherd, McCabe & Cooley, Longwood, for Appellant.

Lamar D. Oxford, Esquire and Frank C. Wesighan, Esquire of Dean, Ringers, Morgan & Lawton, Orlando, for Appellees.


HAWKES, J.

Claimant appeals the order of the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC), which held Claimant's broken wrist, sustained when playing softball with her supervisor and co-workers while she was "on-call," was not compensable. We affirm.

Section 440.092(1), Florida Statutes (2003), provides that "[r]ecreational or social activities are not compensable unless such [ ] activities are an expressly required incident of employment and produce a substantial direct...

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