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FL H0757
Bill
Status
4/30/2010
Primary Sponsor
Michael Weinstein
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AI Summary
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Exempts out-of-state employees and their employers from Florida's Workers' Compensation Law while temporarily working in Florida if the employer carries workers' compensation insurance in their home state and that state recognizes extraterritorial coverage provisions.
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Requires reciprocal treatment where Florida-covered employees and employers are similarly exempted from the other state's workers' compensation requirements.
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Establishes that benefits under the other state's workers' compensation insurance or similar laws become the exclusive remedy for injuries sustained by out-of-state employees working in Florida.
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Permits a certificate from another state's labor department certifying the employer has extraterritorial coverage to serve as prima facie evidence of workers' compensation insurance.
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Exempts qualifying out-of-state employers from Florida's notice and penalty requirements under sections 440.10(1)(g) and 440.38(7), and requires courts to take judicial notice of other states' workers' compensation law interpretations in litigation.
Legislative Description
State Reciprocity in Workers' Compensation Claims
Last Action
Died in Committee on Insurance, Business, & Financial Affairs Policy (GGPC)
4/30/2010