Evidence Didn't Support Inference That Worker's Intoxication Led to Fatal Accident

Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal on Wednesday overturned a denial of benefits to a worker’s widow, deciding that the record evidence did not support a finding that his intoxication contributed to his death from being struck by a truck. Although surveillance video showed Matthew Inmon stumbling on foot along the road shortly before the accident, and his own wife said he seemed to be drunk, the 1st DCA said it took an “impermissible stacking of inferences” for a judge of compensation claims to arrive at the conclusion that Inmon’s death wa...