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: Florida Workers’ Compensation Law BlogCommittee on General Government Appropriations Adds Additional Amendments to CS/SB 2072
By David A. McCranie, Esq.
CS/CS/SB 2072 has now been voted favorably out of the Senate Committee on General Government Appropriations by a vote of 5-0. In addition to the changes to the original bill which I discussed in my April 18 post, the new committee substitute exempts from the restrictions of §440.34 fees for attorneys who successfully represent "first responders" in claims arising out of an "occupational disease" as that term is defined in §112.1815. As I discussed here, in 2007 the legislature made special provision for first responders with respect to occupational diseases.
Full post as published by Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Blog on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).
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