Theodore Roosevelt “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Governor Crist had a chance to stand up for the rights of working men and women across Florida and veto HB 903, a Bill that helps insurance companies to get away with wrongfully denying benefits to injured workers. Instead, at the insistence of the business and insurance special interest groups he signed the Bill. He was well informed [...]
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 [...]