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The 2025 Florida Statutes
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F.S. 185.34185.34 Disability in line of duty.—For any municipality, chapter plan, local law municipality, or local law plan under this chapter, any condition or impairment of health of any and all police officers employed in the state caused by tuberculosis, hypertension, heart disease, or hardening of the arteries, resulting in total or partial disability or death, shall be presumed to be accidental and suffered in line of duty unless the contrary be shown by competent evidence. Any condition or impairment of health caused directly or proximately by exposure, which exposure occurred in the active performance of duty at some definite time or place without willful negligence on the part of the police officer, resulting in total or partial disability, shall be presumed to be accidental and suffered in the line of duty, provided that such police officer shall have successfully passed a physical examination upon entering such service, which physical examination including electrocardiogram failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, and, further, that such presumption shall not apply to benefits payable under or granted in a policy of life insurance or disability insurance. This section shall be applicable to all police officers only with reference to pension and retirement benefits under this chapter.History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 57-340; s. 1, ch. 67-580; s. 62, ch. 79-40; s. 21, ch. 86-42; s. 72, ch. 99-1.
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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:
Cases Citing Statute 185.34
Total Results: 8
372 So. 2d 438
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jun 14, 1979 | Docket: 1325280
Cited 35 times | Published
discharge of his duties as a police captain. Section 185.34, Florida Statutes (1961), provided that any
82 So. 3d 47, 37 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 50, 2012 WL 224104, 2012 Fla. LEXIS 195
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jan 26, 2012 | Docket: 60306224
Cited 15 times | Published
(1975)); Brasher, 132 So.2d at 443 (interpreting section 185.34, Florida Statutes (1957)). As discussed above
120 So. 2d 5
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jan 27, 1960 | Docket: 60194902
Cited 2 times | Published
statute, Chapter 57-340, Laws of 1957, F.S.A. § 185.34; (2) that if so entitled, the said statute was
132 So. 2d 442
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 3, 1961 | Docket: 60198204
Cited 1 times | Published
repeated here. The court upheld the validity of section 185.34, Fla.Stat., F.S.A.,2 but remanded the cause
559 So. 2d 627, 1990 Fla. App. LEXIS 863, 1990 WL 11818
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 13, 1990 | Docket: 64649603
Published
the City, asking the court to declare that Section 185.34, Florida Statutes (Supp.1986),1 applied to
453 So. 2d 910, 9 Fla. L. Weekly 1728, 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 14611
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 8, 1984 | Docket: 64606236
Published
to the statutory presumption contained in section 185.34, Florida Statutes (1983).
Any condition or
436 So. 2d 350, 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 20110
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 16, 1983 | Docket: 64599094
Published
1983).
Pfeiffer also contends that, pursuant to Section 185.34, Florida Statutes (1979), he is entitled to
398 So. 2d 952, 1981 Fla. App. LEXIS 19799
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: May 13, 1981 | Docket: 64582819
Published
present. The officer’s attorney argued that Section 185.34, Florida Statutes (1977) entitled his client
