Category: Florida Workers’ Compensation

  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 Specialty Insurance has challenged the validity of …

  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 Compensation Insurance (“NCCI”)/OIR court …

  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 to Florida workers’ compensation system stakeholders. To access and respond to the survey, click here.   The …

  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 hyperlinks below): 69L-7.501:  The proposed Rule is …

  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 (“NCCI”).   NCCI has proposed an overall average increase of …

  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 Insurance (“NCCI”), the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation and Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier. …

  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, which addresses a third legal change affecting Florida’s workers’ compensation system, increases NCCI’s initial …

  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 an “Order Setting Assessment Rate for Workers’ Compensation Administration Trust Fund (WCATF) for Calendar Year …

  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 workers’ compensation statute are unconstitutional. To view the decision …

  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 Chamber are preparing to call upon the Florida Legislature to schedule …