CFO Orders State to Process Comp Claims From Some Virus-Sickened State Workers

Florida's chief financial officer has ordered a state agency to relax its objections and to begin processing workers' compensation claims from frontline state employees who are diagnosed with COVID-19. CFO Jimmy Patronis ordered the Division of Risk Management to begin reviewing claims from law officers, firefighters, emergency medical workers, health care workers, correctional officers, child safety investigators and Florida National Guard members, according to a news release. Some 36 claims from state workers for COVID-19 have been filed with the division. “If we&rsq...