Category: Florida Workers’ Compensation

Cost savings in two Florida funds paid into by workers’ compensation carriers are expected to equal a nearly $20 million reduction in expenses for insurers operating in the state next year, according to a statement from the Florida Department of …

If you’re looking for new reimbursement manuals that detail changes in Florida’s medical fee schedules, don’t bother, the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation said this week. The Legislature this year failed to approve the new fee schedules, so the current …

Florida employers will save nearly $20 million in workers’ compensation premiums next year because of “sound financial management” of the state’s two compensation trust funds, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said Wednesday. “Just last month, we announced that a 1.8 …

The assessment for the Workers’ Compensation Administration Trust Fund will drop, from 0.97% to 0.90%, for calendar year 2019, the seventh straight decrease, the Department of Financial Services announced in a bulletin. For insurance carriers, the assessment is based on net …

  Rulemaking has been ongoing since last fall for Rule 59A-5.032, F.A.C. and Rule 59A-5.032, F.A.C.–both entitled “Transparency and Billing.” Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration opened the new Rules pursuant to 2016 statutory changes to s. 395.301, F.S. Respective …

  Rejecting arguments that Florida’s Sunshine Law was violated, Florida’s First District Court of Appeal has upheld a 14.5 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance rates that were effected in December 2016. To read the ruling issued today, May 9, …

  Below is an update on recent Florida workers’ compensation regulatory activities:   Fraud Status Report Florida’s Division of Investigative and Forensic Services, Bureau of Worker’s Compensation Fraud and the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation Bureau of Compliance issued a …

  With an array of legal pending legal and statewide rate increase issues as a backdrop, the Florida House of Representatives’ Insurance and Banking Subcommittee will hold Part One of a Panel Discussion on issues relating to Florida’s Workers’ Compensation …

  In what it labled “a case of first impression,” Florida’s First District Court of Appeal (“First DCA”) ruled today, January 23, 2017, that under Florida’s workers’ compensation law, an injured worker was not entitled to select a physician in …

  FloridaPolitics.com’s Michael Moline reported today, January 12, 2017, that the National Council on Compensation Insurance has submitted a brief with Florida’s First District Court of Appeal in the ongoing action relating to its workers’ compensation rate increase filing approved by …