Former JCC Wins 1st Round in Legal Battle Challenging Nominating Commission

Former Florida Judge of Compensation Claims Gerardo Castiello has prevailed in his first of three challenges to the process used to nominate workers’ compensation judges. Castiello claimed in a series of administrative petitions that the Statewide Nominating Commission for Judges of Compensation Claims (SNCJCC) improperly relied on a set of internal guidelines that had never been adopted through the rule-making process to make determinations about those nominated as judges. The guidelines were both unlawful on their face, because they hadn’t been adopted through rule-mak...