Disability Law

HB 903 on House Committee Agenda

By David A. McCranie, Esq.

HB 903, which would repeal the requirement that carrier-paid claimant's attorney's fees be "reasonable" and would require instead that they be "less than or equal to" a percentage of benefits secured by the attorney for his client, will be considered by the House Insurance, Business, and Financial Affairs Policy Committee on Tuesday, March 10.  Proposed amendments to the bill must be submitted by 6:00 p.m. on Monday, March 9.

Given that the committee is comprised of 13 Republicans and 8 Democrats, and given that the ranking Democrat, Priscilla Taylor (D-W. Palm Beach), had originally introduced a similar bill herself (HB 311), I'd guess that this bill will have no trouble making it through committee.  

Full post as published by Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Blog on March 08, 2009 (boomark / email).