Another Amicus Brief Filed on Behalf of Claimants' Attorney in Suit Against NCCI

The National Council on Compensation Insurance operated in a “shroud of secrecy” and should be required to obey Florida’s Sunshine Law, according to an amicus brief filed in NCCI’s appeal of a trial court’s ruling. Tampa claimants' attorney Mike Winer filed the brief with the 1st District Court of Appeal in response to a Nov. 23 Leon County Circuit Court decision in favor of Miami claimants’ attorney James F. Fee Jr., who alleges NCCI and the state Office of Insurance Regulation colluded in secret to settle on a 14.5% increase in workers’ com...