Lawyers on Defense Side of Major Comp Cases Now Are Judges

Less than a year into his first term in office, Gov. Ron DeSantis has already delivered on one of his major campaign promises: to put more conservative jurists on the bench. The Republican governor has named three state Supreme Court justices, a chief judge over the division of workers' compensation hearings, and now, two judges to Florida's 1st District Court of Appeals, which handles workers' comp appeals. Both Rachel Nordby and Adam Tanenbaum, named to the appeals court last month, have been on the defense side in some major workers' comp cases that led to landmar...