Florida Workers’ Comp Fight Could Have High Stakes

Nearly 13 years after lawmakers overhauled the state’s workers’ compensation insurance system, the Florida Supreme Court will hear a legal challenge that could have major implications for businesses, insurers and injured workers. Justices will hear arguments Wednesday in a constitutional challenge to a key part of the workers’ compensation system — and have long mulled two other cases that take issue with workers’ compensation laws. In each case, plaintiffs essentially argue that lawmakers have gone too far in taking away rights and benefits from people who get injured on the job.