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FL H0757

Bill

Status

Failed

4/30/2010

Primary Sponsor

Michael Weinstein

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Origin

House of Representatives

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • 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.

  • Requires reciprocal treatment where Florida-covered employees and employers are similarly exempted from the other state's workers' compensation requirements.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Insurance, Business & Financial Affairs Policy2/5/2010

Full Bill Text

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