What Do You Think? Florida's heart-lung statute creates a rebuttable presumption that heart disease is an accident that arose from employment for certain first responders, including law enforcement officers. A recent case involving a prison guard […]

TAMPA, Fla., August 8, 2025– Kids’ Chance of Florida, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to the children of Florida workers who have been seriously or fatally injured on the job, proudly […]

Compliance Corner Serving a petition on a carrier is a necessary step in filing a workers' compensation claim in the Sunshine State, but what are the rules for doing it? That's just one of many […]

In the recent case of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Robert A. Lee, et al., Case No.: 6D2023-2377, the Florida Court of Appeals ruled that a workers’ compensation carrier’s subrogation lien should be calculated following a […]

25 for 25 in '25 We throw it back to 2004 and take a look at a case from the top court of Florida, which dug into the boring-but-important question of what courts can and […]

Case File An explosion on the job that killed and injured people prompted a Florida employer to seek drug and alcohol testing for blood drawn from a worker involved in the incident when he received […]

Case File When a Florida teacher sought continuing medical treatments for headaches she experienced after being hit by a student, her employer's failure to contest the compensability of those headaches within 120 days meant she […]

Case File After a teacher experienced a serious eye injury at the hands of a violent student, her request for benefits later on hit twin snags in the form of a legal doctrine and a […]