Comments on: Florida Worker’s Comp Rate Hike Continues Amid Legal Battle http://www.northescambia.com/2016/12/florida-workers-comp-rate-hike-continues-amid-legal-battle Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:33:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Henry Coe http://www.northescambia.com/2016/12/florida-workers-comp-rate-hike-continues-amid-legal-battle/comment-page-1#comment-333733 Henry Coe Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:04:49 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=271811#comment-333733 Here's an idea. Make all Workers Compensation Insurance a public option insurance for businesses that is run through the state Medicaid and operated at cost instead of lining the pockets of the "For Profit" Insurance Industry. Ideally, I would rather see it run through Social Security and paid for through payroll taxes. That way Work Comp will actually be about the Injured Worker and not about profits for the Insurance Industry or for Attorneys. I get the argument Attorney's are making. Jeb Bush's 2003 change to Work Comp made it where Attorney's don't get paid for the paperwork involved in a claim. That means the more complicated a claim is, with more paperwork, the less likely an attorney will be interested in the claim and the injured worker ends up getting screwed at a time in their life where they really need help. The injured workers with life altering injuries just end up being the tennis ball in a tennis match between the Insurance and the Attorney. Florida should be ashamed of the Work Comp system. Like the Work Comp system itself, compared with the politics of this rate increase, the concern is not focused on taking care of injured workers in Florida. Instead, this is about the lobbyist for the insurance companies fighting lobbyist for attornies to see who can buy the most politicians. Btw, the amount of Lobbyist for the Injured Workers remains a zero. Here’s an idea. Make all Workers Compensation Insurance a public option insurance for businesses that is run through the state Medicaid and operated at cost instead of lining the pockets of the “For Profit” Insurance Industry.
Ideally, I would rather see it run through Social Security and paid for through payroll taxes. That way Work Comp will actually be about the Injured Worker and not about profits for the Insurance Industry or for Attorneys.
I get the argument Attorney’s are making. Jeb Bush’s 2003 change to Work Comp made it where Attorney’s don’t get paid for the paperwork involved in a claim. That means the more complicated a claim is, with more paperwork, the less likely an attorney will be interested in the claim and the injured worker ends up getting screwed at a time in their life where they really need help. The injured workers with life altering injuries just end up being the tennis ball in a tennis match between the Insurance and the Attorney.
Florida should be ashamed of the Work Comp system.

Like the Work Comp system itself, compared with the politics of this rate increase, the concern is not focused on taking care of injured workers in Florida. Instead, this is about the lobbyist for the insurance companies fighting lobbyist for attornies to see who can buy the most politicians.
Btw, the amount of Lobbyist for the Injured Workers remains a zero.

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