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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
