State Reports Public Employee Comp Claim Stats

The Florida Department of Financial Services has released statistical data about workers' compensation claims among state employees and claims denials relating to workers' alleged use of illegal drugs, intoxication and violations of drug-free workplace policies among employers statewide. In an email response to requests from WorkCompCentral regarding revisions that expanded measures in the state's Drug-Free Workplace Act, the division's spokesperson, Alexis Lambert, said there were 14,367 new workers' compensation claims among state employees in the 2010/2011 fiscal year, w...