Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 11, 2024

In 2018 Forum Recap and Professionalism (April 2018) ; 2015 Frierson-Colling Professionalism Award (2015), I had the chance to discuss professionalism and The Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section's efforts to recognize it in their members. Myers who was a legend in Florida workers' compensation before my time.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 18, 2024

We rapidly approach the 78th annual rendition of the Workers Compensation Institute. The Florida Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1995. Beginning in the 1960s, the conference was run by the state Division of Workers’ Compensation. Stevens, 145 Fla. 209, 198 So.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Weaver served as a full-time firefighter with Volusia County for 13 years before retiring in 2012. She did not, however, file for workers’ compensation benefits. The statute did not simply alter the means by which firefighters obtain already-existing workers’ compensation benefits. Background.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Weaver served as a full-time firefighter with Volusia County for 13 years before retiring in 2012. She did not, however, file for workers’ compensation benefits. The statute did not simply alter the means by which firefighters obtain already-existing workers’ compensation benefits. Background.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

It is, of course, one thing for a state to allow the use of marijuana in the treatment of injuries and diseases, but quite another to require employers and/or insurers to reimburse injured workers in connection with a workers’ compensation claim. Stat. . §§ 26-2B-1 to 26-2B-7, et seq.), Four have ruled that it cannot.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 22, 2019

[For the first part of this discussion, see “Workers’ Compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 1” at [link] or [link] ] In my previous post, I described the range of public policy insurance arrangements governments use in the workers’ compensation insurance market.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

For more than a century, governments have pursued a social policy objective: to protect workers from work-related injury, disability, illness and death in a compassionate and sustainable way that still allows the economic activity and innovation necessary for societies to operate and thrive. Government interventions alter the market.

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