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What to Do Immediately After a Workplace Injury in Florida
What to Do Immediately After a Workplace Injury in Florida A Step-by-Step Guide for Protecting Your Rights and Benefits 1. Report the...

Bruce Burk
Aug 30, 2025
60Q-6.130. EMERGENCY OFFICE CLOSURE
1) The Office of Judges of Compensation Claims is subject to closure pursuant to Gubernatorial instructions or declarations pursuant to...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.129. STATEWIDE JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION PROCEDURES
(1) The Guidelines of Operation of the Statewide Nominating Commission (effective 11/22/2013), which set forth the methods by which the...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.128. DESTRUCTION OF OBSOLETE RECORDS
(1) All case files that have been closed and inactive for a period of two years are declared to be obsolete and may be destroyed....

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.127. PROCEDURE FOR RELIEF FROM APPELLATE FILING FEE AND COSTS
The procedure for relief from payment of the appellate filing fee and from the costs of the preparation of the record on appeal for the...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.126. DISQUALIFICATION OR RECUSAL OF JUDGES
(1) Any motion for disqualification of a judge shall be made and determined pursuant to Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.330. (2) Upon...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.125. SANCTIONS
(1) Generally. Failure to comply with the provisions of these rules or any order of the judge may subject a party or attorney to one or...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.124. PAYMENT OF ATTORNEY'S FEES AND COSTS OTHER THAN PURSUANT TO SECTION 440.20(11), FLORIDA STATUTES
(1) Payment of Undisputed Attorney’s Fees and Costs by Claimant. The claimant and his or her attorney may jointly move for the judge to...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.123. SETTLEMENTS UNDER SECTION 440.20(11), FLORIDA STATUTES
(1) Settlements under section 440.20(11)(a) or (b), F.S., involving unrepresented claimants. (a) When a joint petition signed by the...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.122. MOTION FOR RE-HEARING AND AMENDING OR VACATING ORDER
(1) A motion for rehearing shall state specifically the grounds on which it is based and should not be used to re-argue issues already...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.121. EVIDENCE
(1) Evidence which has been offered but ruled inadmissible may be proffered but shall be clearly identified as such by the judge. (2) An...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.120. SUMMARY FINAL ORDER
(1) The judge may enter a summary final order when such an order would be dispositive of the issues raised by the subject petition....

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.119. ABBREVIATED FINAL ORDERS
Any party may request that an abbreviated final order be vacated and that a final compensation order containing separate findings of fact...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.118. EXPEDITED HEARINGS
(1) Scope. This rule applies in those cases deemed by the judge appropriate for expedited hearing pursuant to statute or by agreement of...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.117. EMERGENCY CONFERENCES
(1) A written request for an emergency conference shall be filed and served by electronic transmission or facsimile on all other parties...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
60Q-6.116. PROSECUTION OF CLAIMS AND PETITIONS FOR BENEFITS
(1) All parties shall diligently prosecute or defend the claim or petition, including but not limited to timely conducting all necessary...

Bruce Burk
Aug 4, 2025
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