More than a dozen years have passed since lawmakers in Florida overhauled the state’s workers’ compensation insurance system.\u00a0Now, the Florida Supreme Court will decide a case that could have serious implications for injured workers, businesses and insurance companies.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n A former hospital nurse from Hialeah asked the court to declare Florida’s workers’ compensation law unconstitutional, asserting that the ongoing erosion of benefits year after year fails to pass constitutional muster.<\/p>\n The court heard oral arguments earlier this month in Stahl v. Hialeah Hospital et al<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>, in which nurse Daniel Stahl laid forth the case that workers’ compensation in Florida – since its inception in 1935 – has been “picked away and picked away” by lawmakers seeking to appease corporate fundraisers and insurance lobbyists. It has resulted in a situation where, the plaintiff alleged, workers in Florida are not much better off those those toiling away in sweat factories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Specifically at issue in the Stahl<\/em> case (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than a dozen years have passed since lawmakers in Florida overhauled the state’s workers’ compensation insurance system.\u00a0Now, the Florida Supreme Court will decide a case that could have serious implications for injured workers, businesses and insurance companies.\u00a0 A former…<\/span><\/p>\n