Voices Pushes to Equalize Fee Caps between Workers and Employers

The Florida injured workers' group that broke ranks with claimants' lawyers this week over a compromise amendment to legislation triggered by the debate over the 2003 cap on attorneys' fees is pushing to equalize a set of proposed fee caps whether workers or employers are footing the bill for claimants' attorneys.Voices Inc. on Wednesday sent a letter to Florida legislators, Gov. Charlie Crist, and state officials saying it could not support the part of a trial bar amendment to Senate Bill 2072 that allows claimants' attorneys to collect fees from workers in settlements bas...