NU Online News Service, May 4, 3:58 p.m. EDT
The Florida Legislature has given final passage to a bill reinstating an attorneys' fee cap in workers' compensation cases in response to a State Supreme Court ruling that an existing fee restriction was unenforceable.
The bill, HB903, states, "Any attorney's fee approved by a judge of compensation claims for benefits secured on behalf of a claimant must be equal to 20 percent of the first $5,000 of the amount of the benefits secured, 15 percent of the next $5,000 of the amount of the benefits secured, 10 percent of the remaining amount of the benefits secured, to be provided during the first 10 years after the date the claim is filed, and 5 percent of the benefits secured after 10 years."
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