Businesses Want Special Session to Include Comp but Concede It's a Long Shot

Florida lawmakers failed to overhaul the state workers’ compensation system, but they were so close to a compromise last month that a business group wants them to try again during the special legislative session that begins today and ends Friday. Only a $70 difference in where to set maximum claimants’ attorney fees, and a reduction in hospital reimbursements, are all that stand in the way of a compromise, said Bill Herrle, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business/Florida, which represents 10,000 small and independent companies acros...