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In Fiscal Year 2008/2009, cases presented for prosecution by The Division of Insurance Fraud resulted in more than $34 million in court ordered restitution. According to the Coalition's 2007-2008 statistics, Florida ranks in the top four (4) among all states’ fraud divisions and bureaus in key measurements of success: 2nd in the number of arrests
The topic of workers' compensation fraud is highly controversial, with claimant supporters arguing that fraud by claimants is rare—as low as one-third of one percent, [63] others focusing on the widely reported National Insurance Crime Bureau statistic that workers' compensation fraud accounts for $7.2 billion in unnecessary costs, [64] and ...
In 2007, 5,488 workers died from job injuries, 92% of which were men, [9] and 49,000 died from work-related injuries. [10] NIOSH estimates that 4 million workers in the U.S. in 2007 suffered from non-fatal work related injuries or illnesses. [11]
A Florida judge denied a motion to temporarily reinstate the extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits that were terminated prematurely this summer.
Under workers' compensation law, a schedule loss of use is the set amount of compensation an employee may receive for the inability to use a particular body member, such as an arm, hand, finger, leg, foot, or toe. An injured employee will receive monetary benefits for the loss of use of such a body member during periods of temporary disability ...
That the defendant (in this case, the employer) owed them a duty of care; That this duty was breached; That the claimant was injured as a result of the breach; [3] (see Causation (law); Causation in English law) and; The injury to the plaintiff was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the breach. [3]
In 2007, 5,488 workers died from job injuries, 92% of which were men, [7] and 49,000 died from work-related injuries. [8] NIOSH estimates that 4 million workers in the U.S. in 2007 suffered from non-fatal work related injuries or illnesses. [9]
Sims began her career representing injured workers in North Florida. She co-founded and served as chair of Florida Workers' Advocates; Florida's only statewide injured worker advocacy organization. [3] [4] In 1999 she was elected the first female president of the Florida Bar Association Worker's Compensation Section.