Employer Can't Use Surveillance Footage as Evidence

Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal upheld an award of benefits to a hotel housekeeper with complex regional pain syndrome, finding her employer was properly precluded from changing its defenses and offering surveillance footage into evidence. Case: 2k South Beach Hotel LLC v. Mustelier, No. 1D19-0713, 01/15/2020, published. Facts and procedural history: Marlene Mustelier worked for the 2k South Beach Hotel as a housekeeper. She developed complex regional pain syndrome after injuring her shoulder at work in 2013. The hotel accepted the CRPS as compensable and authorized doctors to ...