People are talking about workers' compensation, perhaps more today than ever. This is the tenth in an 11-post series (links to the first nine are at the end of this post), that attempts to overview various ...
Read More Premiums are down. Recent rate filings of the National Council on Compensation Insurance lower the cost of insurance by an average of 10%. The opioid scourge has been shrinking. Now one massive cloud ...
Read More The Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims (OJCC) budget, divided by the number of petitions for benefits (PFB) closed, reflects that the overall cost per PFB closed fluctuated in recent years due ...
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People are talking about workers' compensation, perhaps more today than ever. This is the tenth in an 11-post series (links to the first nine are at the end of this post), that attempts to overview various ...
Read More Attorney fees are a consistent interest in the Office of Judges of Compensation Claims Annual Reports. Much of the focus seems to be on the attorney fees approved in a given fiscal year, reported recently ...
Read More People are talking about workers' compensation, perhaps more today than ever. This is the ninth in an 11-post series (links to the first eight are at the end of this post), that attempts to overview various ...
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The OJCC is required by law to approve all attorney’s fees paid by or on behalf of an injured worker. Section 440.34. Fla. Stat. There is no such specific requirement for the approval of fees paid by ...
Read More Conversations at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference led me to see two possible paths for artificial intelligence in workers’ comp claims. We tend to focus on the more ...
Read More What is a "signature," and why would it matter? There are various documents in Florida workers' compensation that must be signed. Signing is mentioned in 60Q-6.102(6), 60Q-6.103, 60Q-6.106(3), 60Q-6.110(5), ...
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