3rd DCA Receives 3 Amicus Requests in Constitutional Challenge to Comp Act

Two attorneys who represent claimants and one who represents insurers have filed requests with the Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal to file amicus curie briefs in an appeal of a Dade County judge's ruling that the state's workers' compensation statute is unconstitutional. Judge Jorge E. Cueto of the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami ruled in August that Florida's Workers' Compensation Act is "no longer an adequate exclusive replacement remedy in place of common-law tort" as required by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Florida Constitution. The...