God's Blessing Ltd. v. Salas
A seaman obtained an order reinstating maintenance and cure based on an unverified 'emergency motion' with unauthenticated attachments, which the trial court granted under its 'inherent authority.' The Third District held the order was a preliminary injunction reviewable under Rule 9.130(a)(3)(B) and reversed, holding that a party seeking interim, pre-trial maintenance and cure in a Florida court must proceed under the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure rather than informal admiralty practices borrowed from federal district courts.
Key facts
- A seaman filed an unverified emergency motion with unauthenticated attachments seeking to reinstate maintenance and cure payments, which the trial court granted based on its asserted inherent authority.
- The trial court ordered the shipowner to pay maintenance and cure before any final determination of the seaman's entitlement to such relief.
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Why it matters
The opinion supplies a clean jurisdictional hook — characterizing substance over label, any order compelling interim payments before a merits determination is an appealable temporary injunction under Rule… — full analysis with a trial
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