Florida Work Comp News
The latest news about workers compensation in Florida.
- Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier, acting on the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, signed an executive order prohibiting carriers from canceling any policies for the next two months as the…
- A Florida administrative law judge will hear a challenge in December to proposed hospital reimbursement rules that, according to a group of carriers, set arbitrary and capricious maximum reimbursement allowances. The Florida…
- The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that physician dispensing workshops that were postponed due to Hurricane Ian are rescheduled for Oct. 19. The division is proposing changes to rules addressing health…
- The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation is postponing workshops on physician dispensing rules scheduled for Thursday, the same day Hurricane Ian is forecast to make landfall. The division is proposing changes…
- A group of insurance companies is asking the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings to analyze the validity of proposed hospital reimbursement rules and determine whether the methods used by the…
- The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is holding a hearing Friday on a recommended 8.4% rate level decrease. The National Council on Compensation Insurance on Aug. 24 submitted a filing requesting…
- A federal workplace safety investigation revealed that a 35-year-old farmworker died from heat illness on a Duette, Florida, farm in April 2022, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced…
- The National Council on Compensation Insurance on Wednesday filed its recommendation for an 8.4% rate level decrease for workers’ compensation, effective Jan. 1, 2023. NCCI said in its filing that data for…
- A Florida company was sentenced in federal court on a criminal charge related to an explosion at a coal-fired power plant in 2017 that caused the death of five workers. Tampa…
- A Florida appellate court overturned a denial of benefits to a sheriff’s deputy for heart disease, finding his failure to follow a course of treatment for conditions that were risk…
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