The recently amended Rule 69L-7.020, F.A.C. adopting the 2015 Edition of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Health Care Provider Reimbursement Manual (“Manual”) will not be effective until ratified by...
Revised regulations relating to business record maintenance and conditional release of stop work orders become effective September 6, 2015, the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation (“DWC”)...
The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation (“DWC”) will meet at the upcoming 70th Workers’ Compensation Education Conference to hear from stakeholders on the recent recommendations by the...
In an alert issued today, August 3, 2015, the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation advised self-insurers, insurers, claim administrators, injured workers and attorneys that the following Rules have been...
The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Workers’ Compensation (“DWC”) advised today, July 24, 2015, that it has adopted the Florida Workers’ Compensation Health Care...
Above: Colodny Fass Lawyers Maria Elena Abate and Donovan Brown note today’s development in the Florida workers’ compensation constitutionality case The Florida Supreme Court could ultimately...
With a finding today, June 24, 2015, that the plaintiffs in Florida Workers’ Advocates et al. v. Florida have no legal standing and thus, the case is moot, South Florida’s Third District Court of...
Florida’s workers’ compensation market is competitive, well-capitalized and robust, with lower amounts of loss, according to the 2014 Workers’ Compensation Annual Report (“Report”)...
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) has approved an overall decrease of 5.2 percent in Florida workers’ compensation insurance rates. The OIR noted that this is the first decrease...
In an Order issued today, November 5, 2014, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty notified the National Council on Compensation Insurance (“NCCI”) that its proposed 3.3 percent overall decrease in...