Butler v. Bay Center/Chubb Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that prior versions of the statute governing the means of identifying the physicians with whom a claimant could seek alternate care were procedural enactments
• holding that changes to section 440.13(2)(c) and (f), which address procedure for authorizing medical providers, are remedial and apply to all accidents, regardless of date
• holding “the procedural right to request a onetime ‘change of physician during the course of treatment’ does not attach” until claimant actually begins treatment with the initially authorized physician
• affirming JCC’s denial of claimant’s request for another pain management physician where claimant refused to first receive treatment from physician timely authorized by E/C
• “[Procedural or remedial changes to law apply without regard to the date of a claimant’s accident.”
• procedural changes apply without regard to the date of accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).