Insurance Commissioner Announces Another Rate Decrease, But. . .
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has announced yet another decrease in workers' compensation rates for Florida employers in 2009. The average rate will decrease by 18.6%, bringing the average cumulative decreases in rates to 60.5% since the 2003 amendments to Ch. 440 were enacted.
Commissioner McCarty warned, however, that this decrease does not take into account the effects of the Florida Supreme Court's 10/23/2008 ruling in Murray v. Mariner Health. He expects NCCI to make a new filing in support of the rate impact which it believes will result from Murray.