Lawyers attacking Florida’s workers’ compensation law don’t expect to foment revolution; they would happily return to 1991.

That’s when the Florida Supreme Court decided Martinez v. Scanlan and affirmed the constitutionality of the 1990 version of workers’ comp. The law sets rules for the “grand bargain” that trades the vagaries of the jury system for the certainty of payments to employees injured on the job, no fault required.

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