Calling it an “unconstitutional taking” that Florida hospitals have the ” . . . unfettered right to set whatever outpatient prices they want without any due process safeguards to the payers,” XL...
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) advised this morning, November 29, 2016, that it has filed a Notice of Appeal with the First District Court of Appeal in the Fee v. National Council on...
The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Workers’ Compensation advised on November 18, 2016 that Florida’s Three-Member Panel has published its statutory survey directed...
Comments are being accepted until October 21, 2016 by the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation on the following proposed Rules (to view the corresponding Notice of Proposed Rule, click on the corresponding...
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) conducted a hearing on August 16, 2016 to consider a workers’ compensation rate filing made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
The Florida Workers’ Compensation Research Institute’s WCI360.com reported today, August 12, 2016, that a Plaintiffs’ attorney has filed a lawsuit against the National Council on Compensation...
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) received an amended rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (“NCCI”) yesterday, June 30, 2016. The filing,...
In Bulletin DFS-02-2016 issued June 17, 2016, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater advised insurers and self-insurers that the State’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued...
Quashing the First District Court of Appeal ruling in the case of Westphal v. City of St. Petersburg Risk Management, the Florida Supreme Court has determined that certain portions of Florida’s...
Florida’s business community decried a 17.1 percent rate increase filing made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (“NCCI”) today, May 27, 2016. Organizations such as the Florida...