Wilson: Put Workers and Businesses First, Not Trial Lawyers

Attention, Florida business owners: In case you missed it, you are about to be hit with a workers’ compensation insurance increase that you most likely haven’t planned for, all for the benefit of Florida’s billboard trial lawyers. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved a 14.5% workers’ compensation rate increase that takes effect Dec. 1 for new and renewal policies — the fallout from two damaging Florida Supreme Court decisions, Castellanos and Westphal.   A rate increase this big, this sudden, hurts F...