Constitutional Challenge to Exclusive Remedy Set for Oral Argument March 30

The 3rd District Court of Appeal will hear oral argument next month on whether the state's workers' compensation system provides a constitutionally adequate exclusive remedy for industrial injuries. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Cueto stunned system participants last August when he ruled that the benefits available to workers under the comp system had become so decimated that a workers' comp claim was no longer an adequate substitute for a tort cause of action, as a matter of law. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is appealing this ruling to the state's 3rd DCA, e...