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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On December 5, 2017, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee passed SB 376 with one amendment. The bill loosens the requirements for first responders to collect workers’ compensation indemnity benefits for PTSD when there is no physical injury. This is the second year the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee has…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On November 14, 2017, the House workers’ compensation reform bill passed its first committee with one amendment. This year’s bill is a committee bill, PCB COM 18-01 with Rep. Burgess-R handling the bill again this year. The House Speaker will now review the bill to determine if additional committee…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On November 7, 2017, the House Commerce Committee filed a committee bill to reform workers’ compensation. The bill, PCB COM 18-01 will be heard and voted on when the Committee meets next week, on November 14, 2017. Thus, it appears the House leadership is fast-tracking worker’s comp reform which…
NCCI Rate Filing Letter 10-25-17.pdf
By Greenberg Traurig, P.A. On October 18, 2017, the Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) convened a hearing for the purpose of discussing the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) proposed decrease in workers’ compensation rates effective January 1, 2018. You may access the public hearing video here: 10/18/2017 and the OIR presentation here: 10/18/2017. Opening…
By: Greenberg Traurig Following is a summary of the workers’ compensation discussion held in the House Commerce Committee on October 10, 2017. The summary is provided by Greenberg Traurig. Chairman Burgess: The following persons will be providing an update regarding Workers’ Compensation: Jeff Eddinger, Senior Division Executive National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) …
By Greenberg Traurig NCCI Makes Workers’ Compensation Filing for Rate Decrease On Monday, August 28, 2017, the National Council on Compensation Insurance (“NCCI”) submitted a filing to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) in which NCCI recommended an average premium decrease of 9.6 percent, effective January 1, 2018. The proposal comes in the wake…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill, SB 126, loosening the requirements for first responders to have compensable mental or nervous injuries for workers’ compensation has been filed again in the Senate for 2018. The bill is in response to the denial of mental health benefits under workers’ comp to emergency personnel who responded…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel No appeal to the Florida Supreme Court was timely filed in the case involving the validity of the 14.5% workers’ compensation rate increase that took effect on December 1, 2016. The appeal filing deadline was June 8, 2017. Because the litigation has now concluded, the Florida Office of…