I recently spent four days in Orlando with some 8,000 workers’ compensation insurance professionals, from claims adjusters to attorneys, agents, brokers, and experts from the provider and medical arenas. Presented for the 25th year by the non-profit Florida Workers’ Compensation Institute, the 66th annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference has become a must-attend event that reaches far beyond our state’s borders and draws participants and speakers from across the nation.

Florida, however, is always uppermost in my mind, and I had the opportunity to visit with our CFO Jeff Atwater, who addressed the gathering. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) had made its annual Florida rate filing just days before, so I asked Atwater if the 8.9-percent increase was a number he could support.

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