Florida Statute 769.01 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 769
HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS

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769.01 Employers affected by fellow servant act.—This chapter shall apply to persons engaged in the following hazardous occupations in this state; namely, railroading, operating street railways, generating and selling electricity, telegraph and telephone business, express business, blasting and dynamiting, operating automobiles for public use, boating, when boat is propelled by steam, gas or electricity.

History.—s. 1, ch. 6521, 1913; RGS 4971; CGL 7058.

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Cases Citing Statute 769.01

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Ake v. Birnbaum, 25 So. 2d 213 (Fla. 1945).

Cited 75 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 156 Fla. 735, 1945 Fla. LEXIS 982

wrongful act statutes, aided as to proof by section 769.01. F.S. 1941, the hazardous occupations act.

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Florida Power & Light Co. v. Price, 170 So. 2d 293 (Fla. 1964).

Cited 69 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...Nor do we believe Chapter 769, F.S., the hazardous occupation statute, has the effect of automatically waiving recognized exceptions to the dangerous instrumentality or inherently dangerous work doctrines. It is true the defendant is engaged in selling electricity and is one of the class of persons referred to in F.S. § 769.01, F.S.A., but this alone does not render it liable for injuries to an employee of its independent contractor caused by the negligence of a fellow employee of the independent contractor unless it can be shown defendant in some way contributed or concurred in the act of negligence....

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Ry. Express Agency, Inc. v. Fulmer, 227 So. 2d 870 (Fla. 1969).

Cited 19 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1969 Fla. LEXIS 2154

...n years without prior injury. *871 Subsequently, at the conference on instruction, the trial court and parties agreed that the jury be charged in the language of Florida Statute § 769.03, F.S.A., which provides as follows: "The persons mentioned in § 769.01 [persons engaged in hazardous occupations] shall not be liable in damages for injuries to their agents and employees, or for the death of such agents and employees, where same is done by their consent, or is caused by their own negligence. If the employees or agents injured or killed, and the persons mentioned in § 769.01, or their agents and employees are both at fault, there may be a recovery, but the amount of the recovery shall be such a proportion of the entire damages sustained, as the defendant's negligence bears to the combined negligence of both the...

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Price v. Florida Power & Light Co., 159 So. 2d 654 (Fla. 2d DCA 1963).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...able to the dangerous instrumentality doctrine, do refer to the inherent dangers in the generation and distribution of electricity. The Legislature has classified those generating and selling electricity as persons engaged in a hazardous occupation. § 769.01, Florida Statutes, F.S.A....

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Jones v. Brink, 39 So. 2d 791 (Fla. 1949).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1949 Fla. LEXIS 1321

...It will have been seen that both were riding horses owned by the defendants; so they were fellow servants, and under the doctrine adopted in this state, the master would not be responsible for injuries to one resulting from the negligence of the other, inasmuch as the defendants were not engaged in any occupation outlined in Section 769.01 , Florida Statutes 1941, and F.S.A....

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Maule Indus., Inc. v. Watson, 201 So. 2d 631 (Fla. 1st DCA 1967).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 4660

the defendant, came within the provisions of § 769.01, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., the Florida Supreme Court

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