2024 Florida Statutes
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Chapter 440
WORKERS' COMPENSATION
SECTION 1051Fraud reports; civil immunity; criminal penalties.
440.1051 Fraud reports; civil immunity; criminal penalties.—
(1) The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud of the Division of Investigative and Forensic Services of the department shall establish a toll-free telephone number to receive reports of workers’ compensation fraud committed by an employee, employer, insurance provider, physician, attorney, or other person.
(2) Any person who reports workers’ compensation fraud to the Division of Investigative and Forensic Services under subsection (1) is immune from civil liability for doing so, and the person or entity alleged to have committed the fraud may not retaliate against him or her for providing such report, unless the person making the report knows it to be false.
History.—s. 13, ch. 93-415; s. 106, ch. 97-103; s. 474, ch. 2003-261; s. 12, ch. 2003-412; s. 11, ch. 2016-165.