Florida Statute 769.06 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 769
HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS

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769.06 Contracts limiting liability invalid.—Any contract, contrivance or device whatever, having the effect to relieve or exempt the persons mentioned in s. 769.01 from the liability prescribed by this chapter shall be illegal and void.

History.—s. 6, ch. 6521, 1913; RGS 4976; CGL 7063.

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Cases Citing Statute 769.06

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Bland v. Health Care & Ret. Corp., 927 So. 2d 252 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006).

Cited 26 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 1235910

...O'Brien Imports of Fort Myers, Inc., 862 So.2d 87, 90 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003) (noting statute prohibited fee waiver). The legislature could have included such a restriction in the Nursing Home Residents' Rights Act. Petsch, 872 So.2d at 261; see, e.g., § 769.06 (prohibiting contracts limiting liability in context of fellow servant act as illegal and void)....

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ALTERRA HEALTHCARE v. Est. of Linton Ex Rel. Graham, 953 So. 2d 574 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007).

Cited 19 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2007 WL 597008

...Moreover, the Florida Legislature stated that any waiver of specified provisions of the Motor Vehicle Retail Sales Finance Act "shall be unenforceable and void." § 520.13, Fla. Stat. (2002). Regarding liability of persons engaging in certain hazardous occupations, the legislature stated: 769.06 Contracts limiting liability invalid. Any contract, contrivance or device whatever, having the effect to relieve or exempt the persons mentioned in s. 769.01 from the liability prescribed by this chapter shall be illegal and void. § 769.06, Fla....

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Gessa v. Manor Care of Florida, Inc., 86 So. 3d 484 (Fla. 2011).

Cited 6 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 36 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 676, 2011 Fla. LEXIS 2765, 2011 WL 5864823

prescribed by this chapter shall be illegal and void. § 769.06, Fla. Stat. (2004). Florida’s insurance law specifies

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Crosby v. Reg. Util. Bd., City of Gainesville, 400 So. 2d 1024 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...ederal courts. In Macarages v. Raymond Concrete Pile Company, 220 F.2d 891 (5th Cir.1955), the court held that the exclusive liability provision of Section 440.11, Florida Statutes, was not the type of "contract, contrivance or device" prohibited in Section 769.06, Florida Statutes....

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