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An artificial, practice-based barrier often separates workers’ compensation issues and employment law issues for attorneys. For many jurisdictions, this is in part based on the different venues for such claims. In practice, issues employers face in employment and workers'; compensation matters are often intertwined, sometimes with respect to the same employee.

For the past several months, there has been a fair amount of anticipation and promotion about what to expect from the Department of Labor (DOL) in updating regulations related to overtime. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes, among other things, the basic criteria for when an employer must pay overtime to its employees.

An employer can implement protective measures for his or her business to protect against liability losses, poor employment practices and even an unexpected personnel loss through a variety of insurance policies and other measures.

Florida's worker's; compensation statute is intended to be self-executing, allowing for a quick and efficient delivery of benefits to an injured worker so as to facilitate his return to gainful employment at a reasonable cost to the employer.

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Since October 2003, representatives of injured employees and industry have renewed arguments concerning the extent to which Florida’s workers’ compensation benefits must be provided claimants who have medical conditions preceding an accidental injury occurring at work.

Florida's workers'; compensation statute provides for an employer to compensate an employee who suffers a compensable accidental injury in the course and scope of his employment during his recovery period, if the compensable condition is severe enough to cause the employee a disability that results in lost wages.

In 2001, the Florida legislature for the first time addressed a maximum number of physician changes during the course of treatment for any one accident in F.S. §440.13(2)(f)(2001).