Recent Posts in the Workers' Compensation Category

• Does 440.25(4)(i) apply to attorney's fees/costs claimed in petitions?
  Jun 3, 2015
  Recently, the First District Court of Appeal (“DCA”) answered this very question in Limith v. Lenox on the Lake. The condensed version is that ...
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• 66 2/3 % means 66 2/3 %
  Apr 4, 2013
  Stop what you're doing. We have all been simply multiplying a claimant's average weekly wage (AWW) by .6667 or apparently per this opinion, .66667 to ...
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• Westphal v. City of St. Petersburg
  Mar 4, 2013
  As most of the Florida workers' compensation community now know, last Thursday saw the handing down of an opinion by the First District Court of ...
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• 5 days - does it really mean 5 days?
  Feb 18, 2013
  Well, the First District Court of Appeal has now decided to weigh in on one of those small, but important, things which has been debated endlessly ...
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• Be careful what petitions you file.
  Oct 10, 2012
  Although the case is not final yet, the First District Court of Appeal (First DCA) recently determined that regardless of whether a petition was filed ...
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• Finally - something self-executing!
  Sep 20, 2012
  It seems like a lot of the decisions we've been getting out of the First District Court of Appeal lately have been engineered to increase litigation, ...
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• Workers' Compensation and the Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
  Jun 29, 2012
  Well, the United States Supreme Court has now spoken and it appears the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 is now the law of ...
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• Could Voluntary State Mediation Become A Reality?
  Jun 26, 2012
  It certainly could become a reality in the near future. The current proposed rule changes to the 60Q-6 Rules of Procedure for Workers' Compensation ...
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