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Florida’s workers’ compensation system is beneficial to injured workers in many ways. Chief among them is the guarantee of medical care and wage‑replacement benefits to injured workers without regard to fault. (This does not necessarily mean carriers and injured workers do not dispute the scope and adequacy of benefits.) The workers’ compensation system also contains…

A lien is a claim held by a party against the settlement or judgment in a personal injury or death case for reimbursement of damages it has paid in the case. This blog will discuss two types of liens commonly arising in death cases, the Medicare lien and the workers’ compensation lien. Medicare pays medical…