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The Florida Court Declines Review of Padgett
In a brief order dated December 22, 2015, the Florida Supreme Court declined to review Padgett v. State of Florida. This saga began with...
Dec 22, 2015
Disabled Son’s Attack on Caregiving Mom puts Courts at Odds
In July 2008, Joshua Gartland, 33, moved back into his mother’s Westmoreland County home. He had run away at age 15, started using drugs...
Nov 9, 2015
Florida Workers’ Compensation: The Great Wait
One year ago when the Foreword to the 2014 Edition of Dubreuil’s Florida Workers’ Compensation Handbook (LexisNexis) was prepared we...
Jun 25, 2015
Is Florida’s Workers Comp System Unconstitutional? Court to Decide
A South Florida appeals court Monday heard arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of the state’s workers-compensation...
Mar 30, 2015
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 17, 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...
Nov 5, 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...
Sep 24, 2014
Florida Court Ruling May Force Closer Look at Workers’ Comp
On Aug. 13, a Miami-Dade County Circuit Court judge declared that the state’s workers’ compensation system is unconstitutional and an...
Aug 31, 2014
Court Holds Exclusive Remedy Facially Unconstitutional
I blog twice a week, usually on Mondays and Wednesdays. I have a lot of respect for those who have the energy to produce more often or...
Aug 20, 2014
Emma Murray vs. Mariner Health and Ace USA - Final Opinion filed October 23, 2008
The Florida Supreme Court declared today, October 23, 2008, 2016, the current system for the provision of attorney's fees' is...
Oct 23, 2008
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