Senate Passes Heart-Lung Presumption Bill

The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill that would allow first responders to use a preemployment physical examination from a former employer to invoke the presumption that certain heart and lung diseases arose from employment. The Senate on Thursday voted 38-0 to pass SB 330, which would also revise the definition of "heart disease" for the purposes of the presumption. Florida's so-called "heart-lung" presumption covers tuberculosis, heart disease and hypertension among firefighters, law enforcement, correctional officers and probation officers. Workers must unde...