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The Florida Supreme Court on June 9, 2016 in the case of Westphal v. City of St. Petersburg<\/a>, Case No. SC13-1976 declared Florida Statute\u00a0440.15(2)(a)<\/a> unconstitutional.\u00a0 That provision sought to limit disability (lost wage) benefits to an injured worker to only 104 weeks, even though the worker was on a no work status or disabled after the 104 weeks.<\/p>\n

The Florida Supreme Court concluded that provision was unconstitutional based on a denial of right of access to the Co\"juneurts.\u00a0 The Florida Supreme Court said that the injured worker could have 5 years or 525 weeks to receive benefits for lost wages based on an earlier constitutional statute. Those weeks do not have to be sequential.<\/p>\n

What this means for the injured worker, is that, the Florida Supreme is finding provisions of the workers compensation law so onerous that those provisions violate the constitutional rights of the injured worker. When this happens, \u00a0the prior constitutional provision of the workers compensation law becomes applicable.<\/p>\n

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The Florida Supreme Court on June 9, 2016 in the case of Westphal v. City of St. Petersburg, Case No. SC13-1976 declared Florida Statute\u00a0440.15(2)(a) unconstitutional.\u00a0 That provision sought to limit disability (lost wage) benefits to an injured worker to only 104 weeks, even though the worker was on a no work status or disabled after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-compensation"],"yoast_head":"\nCap on 104 Weeks of Lost Wages Declared Unconstitutional — Florida Injury Attorneys Blog — June 13, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Florida Supreme Court on June 9, 2016 in the case of Westphal v. 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