Florida Statute 443.0315 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXI
LABOR

Chapter 443
REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE

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443.0315 Effect of finding, judgment, conclusion, or order in separate or subsequent action or proceeding; use as evidence.—Any finding of fact or law, judgment, conclusion, or final order made by a hearing officer, the commission, or any person with the authority to make findings of fact or law in any proceeding under this chapter is not conclusive or binding in any separate or subsequent action or proceeding, other than an action or proceeding under this chapter, between an individual and his or her present or prior employer brought before an arbitrator, court, or judge of this state or the United States, regardless of whether the prior action was between the same or related parties or involved the same facts.

History.—s. 8, ch. 96-411; s. 16, ch. 2003-36.

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Thorkelson v. NY Pizza & Pasta Inc., 956 So. 2d 542 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2007 WL 1459846

...The unlikely contention that "[a]dopting the standard of the unemployment compensation law for purposes of workers' compensation claims would allow review of a workers' compensation award by the unemployment compensation Referee or Commission, which was never intended," is well wide of the mark and wholly unpersuasive. Section 443.0315, Florida Statutes (2004), precludes any such outcome: Any finding of fact or law, judgment, conclusion, or final order made by a hearing officer, the commission, or any person with the authority to make findings of fact or law in any...

...sive or binding in any separate or subsequent action or proceeding . . . between an individual and his or her present or prior employer . . ., regardless of whether the prior action was between the same or related parties or involved the same facts. § 443.0315, Fla....

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