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Governor Crist Signs Workers Compensation Bill »
Governor Charlie Crist signed into law HB 903 which removes the word “reasonable” from a provision in Florida’ Workers Compensation Act that was designed to allow attorneys representing injured workers to be paid a “reasonable fee” for securing benefits which the insurance company wrongfully denied.
Under the current law, the insurance company has to pay a [...]
FLORIDA WORKERS COMPENSATION LAW BENEFITS EMPLOYERS WHO HIDE WAGES »
On September 15, 2008 Florida’ First District Court of Appeals decided the case of Fast Track Framing v Caraballo. In that case the court ruled that workers in Florida are not entitled to compensation benefits if their income is not reported to the IRS.
Although a worker is still entitled to medical care and treatment when injured [...]
EMPLOYEES OF ASIAN BUFFET RESTAURANTS IN SOUTH FLORIDA GET MORE THAN $233,000 BACK PAY »
Operators of three Asian-style buffet restaurants in Lake Worth, Pembroke Pines and Plantation, Fla., have agreed to pay back wages of $233,234 to 55 current and former low-wage employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.
Payments include $97,231 to12 employees at New China Buffet (Lake Worth), $58,849 to 18 [...]
GELBER OFFERS A BILL TO HELP INJURED WORKERS »
Florida Democratic Senator, Dan Gelber has introduced SB 2280 to help level the playing field for injured workers in Florida.
During the Jeb Bush years, Florida’ Workers Compensation Laws were rewritten giving employers and insurance companies greater control over the injured workers access to medical care and further limiting the benefits that workers could qualify for. Additionally, the legislature [...]
ANOTHER ASSAULT ON THE RIGHTS OF INJURED WORKERS »
On Monday, February 16, 2009 Anitere Flores, a Republican member of the House of Representatives for District 114 in Miami, sponsored HB 903 which seeks to reverse the Supreme Court’s ruling in Murray v. Mariner Health. In that case the Court held that the employer or insurance company who wrongfully withholds benefits from an injured [...]
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INVESTIGATION RESULTS IN RECOVERY OF $50,000 IN BACK WAGES TO MIAMI RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES »
El Atlacatl Restaurant agreed to pay $50,717 in back wages to 39 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that the Miami eatery had failed to ensure employees received the federal minimum wage and overtime payments required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Investigators discovered that employees were paid a daily [...]
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION INSURANCE RATE INCREASE APPROVED »
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty issued a final order approving a 6.4 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance rates, based on an amended filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). The approved increase applies to new and renewal business and will become effective April 1.
NCCI previously requested an 8.9 percent rate increase as [...]
WHEN EMPLOYERS DON’T PAY BY THE RULES »
Employers are required to pay workers for overtime and other wages in accordance with state and federal law. Employers who avoid paying their employees fairly are probably more common than you might expect. If you have experienced any of the following, your wages have probably been underpaid:
You have been denied overtime pay because it was [...]
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF INJURED WORKERS »
On October 23, 2008 the Florida Supreme Court rendered an opinion in the case of Emma Murray v. Mariner Health Inc. In that case the Court ruled that attorneys representing injured workers were allowed to recover reasonable fees for helping workers to obtain statutory benefits where the insurance company or the employer refused to provide [...]
GOVERNOR CRIST TO JOIN PRESIDENT TO DISCUSS ECONOMY »
The Governor’s Office released the following Memorandum on 2/9/09:
FROM: Erin Isaac, Governor’s Communications Director
RE: GOVERNOR CRIST TO JOIN PRESIDENT AT FORT MYERS TOWN HALL MEETING TOMORROW
The White House announced today that Florida Governor Charlie Crist will introduce President Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in Fort Myers to discuss the urgent need for a [...]
