Wire ServicesSeptember 2, 2020Tag: workers compensation
Wire ServicesSeptember 2, 2020
Christine Jordan SextonAugust 31, 2020
7min388
"No one should be shocked by this data."
Renzo DowneyMarch 31, 2020
3min1693
36 claims are already awaiting an answer.
Staff ReportsNovember 19, 2019
3min412
Third straight year of cuts
Ryan NicolOctober 25, 20194min484
Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier submitted an order on the issue Thursday.
Danny McAuliffeJune 5, 2019
8min721
Business interests see an opportunity to curb legal costs.
Christine Jordan SextonMarch 27, 2019
7min301
“This (House) bill does good things."
Michael MolineJanuary 7, 2019
5min387
The new chairman of the Senate Banking & Insurance Committee identified his primary legislative target Monday as the “one-way” attorney fee system, which critics in the insurance and wider business community blame for escalating premiums. “If we deal with that, I think we’ll be dealing with the core issue that has been driving the rates […]
Michael MolineDecember 4, 20184min336
Asking doctors — instead of courts — to resolve disputed medical claims could save millions of dollars for Florida’s workers’ compensation system, Florida TaxWatch said Tuesday. The nonpartisan government watchdog proposed emulating California’s independent medical review (IMR) process, which steers such disputes to “appropriately qualified, independent medical professionals” rather than compensation judges or trial courts. […]
Michael MolineOctober 31, 2018
3min513
You can’t buy workers’ compensation insurance to cover an injury that has already happened, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday. “Uninsured persons cannot experience a loss, then scramble to get insurance and fail to disclose their loss, and then have the cost of their loss borne by the new insurer,” Judge Timothy Osterhaus wrote for a […]