Case Name: Joanne WHITEHEAD, Appellant, v. ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT and AIG Claim Services, Inc., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2005-07-15
Citations: 909 So. 2d 344
Docket Number: No. 1D04-2769
Parties: Joanne WHITEHEAD, Appellant, v. ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT and AIG Claim Services, Inc., Appellees.
Judges: BARFIELD, J., concurs, and BROWNING, J., dissents with opinion.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 909
Pages: 344–347

Head Matter:
Joanne WHITEHEAD, Appellant, v. ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT and AIG Claim Services, Inc., Appellees.
No. 1D04-2769.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
July 15, 2005.
Rehearing Denied Aug. 29, 2005.
Jack Keller, Esquire of Paul J. Morgan & Associates, P.A., Winter Park and Bill McCabe, Esquire of Shepherd, McCabe & Cooley, Longwood, for Appellant.
Lamar D. Oxford, Esquire and Frank C. Wesighan, Esquire of Dean, Ringers, Morgan & Lawton, Orlando, for Appellees.

Opinion:
HAWKES, J.
Claimant appeals the order of the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC), which held Claimant's broken wrist, sustained when playing softball with her supervisor and co-workers while she was "on-call," was not compensable. We affirm.
Section 440.092(1), Florida Statutes (2003), provides that "[rjecreational or social activities are not compensable unless such [ ] activities are an expressly required incident of employment and produce a substantial direct benefit to the employer beyond improvement in employee health and morale that is common to all kinds of recreation and social life." Id. Unless both of these statutory criteria are present, regardless of any other circumstance, an injury sustained during recreational or social activities is not compensable.
Here, the JCC found Claimant's participation in the softball game was recreational activity, and that Claimant's participation in the game was not mandatory. Because the JCC's findings are supported by competent, substantial evidence, the order denying compensability of Claimant's injury is AFFIRMED.
BARFIELD, J., concurs, and BROWNING, J., dissents with opinion.