The Florida legislature's special session wrapped up late Tuesday night with the passage of SB 50-A, the state's workers' compensation reform bill.
The workers' compensation bill, S.B. 50A, increases impairment and death benefits; improves coverage availability by making the state Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) more affordable; increases penalties for workers' compensation fraud; and establishes alternative dispute resolution standards and limits attorneys' payments to the fee schedule in current law.
While HB 25-A, the House work comp bill on which SB 50-A was based, passed out of th...
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