Business and Insurance Groups Defend Exclusive Remedy in FWA Lawsuit

Groups representing Florida businesses and insurers are stepping up to defend the state workers' compensation system as the exclusive remedy for injured workers, filing amicus briefs Tuesday in the case now known as The State of Florida v. Florida Workers' Advocates. 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 P...