Regulator Warns of Higher Rates if Medical Costs Aren't Contained

ORLANDO, Florida — State regulators, insurers and medical providers all may have dodged a bullet when workers' compensation legislation failed to pass this year, but committee meetings for next year are starting soon and the issues are not going away, the state's top comp official said Wednesday. Speaking in a three-hour session at the Workers' Compensation Institute's annual conference in Orlando, Andrew Sabolic, deputy director of the Florida Division of Workers' Compensation, gave a warning: While loss costs have declined in Florida in recent ye...