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No Change Asked in How Rates Are Set for Florida Workers' Compensation.

By Jerome R. Stockfisch, Tampa Tribune, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 18--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--A legislative committee studying the way workers' compensation insurance rates are set in Florida is recommending that no major changes be made.

The wait-and-see vote comes after heated debate over the state's beleaguered workers' compensation law in the last legislative session. After a stalemate and special session, lawmakers overhauled the law, narrowing definitions of permanent and temporary disabilities, increasing enforcement and other tac

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