Unlicensed Contracting Investigation in Brevard Nets Four Arrests
An investigation conducted by a host of agencies produced four arrests on Thursday. According to a release from the Brevard County...
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- Dec 29, 2014
Truck driver with previous injuries denied Florida workers comp
A Florida truck driver who failed to tell his employer and treating physicians about his prior injuries and workers compensation claim in...
- Dec 23, 2014
Florida Touts Workers’ Comp Market Competition But Warns on Court Rulings
Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive and well-capitalized, with loss ratios that are among the lowest among larger...
- Nov 17, 2014
Worker's Compensation Fraud Plot Busted, Authorities Say
Kissimmee man was arrested in Palm Beach County after deputies say he ripped off an insurance company of more than $1 million in an...
- Nov 17, 2014
Florida Supreme Court Upholds Exclusive Remedy in Workers’ Compensation Case
The Florida Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Thursday, December 4, in Leticia Morales v. Zenith Insurance Company, upholding the...
- Nov 6, 2014
Florida OIR Tells NCCI Proposed Work Comp Rate Decrease Is not Enough
In an Order issued Wednesday, Nov. 5, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty notified the National Council on Compensation...
- Nov 5, 2014
Are Fee Caps Legal? Supreme Court Hears Workers' Comp Case Today
The Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case today that asks the justices to decide whether the fee caps in the state’s...
- Oct 20, 2014
Late-Term Medical Costs Lower for Older Workers' Comp Claimants: NCCI
Workers compensation claimants younger than 60 have higher medical claim costs for medical payments made 20 and 30 years after their...
- Oct 6, 2014
Family Will Not Collect $2.4 Million for Worker’s Death
The family of a Florida construction worker who was killed by a 1-ton falling steel column cannot collect a $2.4 million judgment from...
- Oct 2, 2014
Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurers Seek Bigger Rate Cut
Florida’s workers’ compensation insurers, already on record recommending an average 2.5 percent cut in rates, now say that a 3.3 percent...
- Sep 24, 2014
Dozens of Identity Theft and Workers’ Compensation Fraud Arrests at Collier County Business
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater today announced that an investigation in Naples by the Florida Department of Financial...
- Sep 24, 2014
Contractor Can Assert Workers' Comp Immunity: Florida Court
A Florida appeals court said Wednesday that highway maintenance contractor VMS Inc. could assert workers' compensation immunity in a...
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