Limo Drivers are 'Traveling Employees', FL 1st, Not Going/Coming

The Florida First Appellate District ruled yesterday that a limousine driver, injured while on an unpaid dinner break, was entitled to workers' compensation benefits. In Fred Longo vs. Associated Limo (1D03-0702, 03/30/04), the Claimant had deposited a fare in Plantation at 7:45 p.m. on April 19, 2000, and was assigned to pick up a customer at the Miami International Airport at 10:00 p.m. He advised the dispatcher that during the interval he would obtain dinner. His accident occurred around 8:25 p.m., while his vehicle was proceeding in the southbound lane of I-75, which is one of seve...