Case Name: In re WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION RULES OF PROCEDURE
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1977-03-17
Citations: 343 So. 2d 1273
Docket Number: No. 50633
Parties: In re WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION RULES OF PROCEDURE.
Judges: OVERTON, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, SUNDBERG, HATCHETT and KARL, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 343
Pages: 1273–1283

Head Matter:
In re WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION RULES OF PROCEDURE.
No. 50633.
Supreme Court of Florida.
March 17, 1977.
Elmer 0. Friday, Jr., Chairman, Leander J. Shaw, Jr., Commissioner, and Arthur C. Canaday, Commissioner of the Industrial Relations Commission of Florida, for petitioner.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
By petition the Chairman and members of the Industrial Relations Commission of Florida request this Court to adopt Workmen's Compensation Rules of Practice and Procedure before the Commission and the Judges of Industrial Claims. This petition is authorized under the provisions of Section 440.29(3), Florida Statutes, which was enacted by the Legislature in 1974, Ch. 74-197, § 16, Laws of Florida, and reads as follows:
"The practice and procedure before the commission and the judges of industrial claims shall be governed by rules adopted by the Supreme Court."
The petition describes the method and manner of the development of these rules by alleging:
"In the spring of 1976, at an assembly of the Judges of Industrial Claims, a committee of three of the Judges was designated to represent them and act as liaison with them in this project, pursuant to which Judges Arthur Seppi, Elwyn Akins, and Alan Kuker were nominated and did serve in that capacity. The Honorable Stephen Marc Slepin, former Chairman of this Commission and as Chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Section of The Florida Bar, actively participated in the development of these rules, and further nominated Steven Rissman to serve as Chairman of the Rules Committee of that Section, with members John Tomlinson and Richard Schwartz, who did serve diligently in behalf of the several hundred members of their Section. The Senior Judge of Industrial Claims of Florida, Thomas J. Carroll, and the members of the Industrial Relations Commission also served as a part of this Joint Rules Committee, the work product of which was, on several occasions, evaluated, debated, modified and thereafter distributed anew for further evaluation' and recommendation.
"The Chairman and Members of the Industrial Relations Commission thereafter held public hearings, after notice, in the cities of Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and Tallahassee. After these hearings additional meetings of the Joint Rules Committee were held, and these proposed Rules, in substantially the attached form and format, were approved for recommendation to this Honorable Court for adoption."
The following Workmen's Compensation Rules of Procedure are hereby adopted and shall govern all proceedings within their scope after 12:01 a. m., July 1, 1977. These rules shall supersede all prior Workmen's Compensation Rules of Practice and Procedure.
It is so ordered.
OVERTON, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, SUNDBERG, HATCHETT and KARL, JJ., concur.
ENGLAND, J., dissents with an opinion.