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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXI
LABOR
Chapter 440
WORKERS' COMPENSATION
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440.40 Compensation notice.Every employer who has secured compensation under the provisions of this chapter shall keep posted in a conspicuous place or places in and about her or his place or places of business typewritten or printed notices, in accordance with a form prescribed by the department, the following:
(1) A notice stating that such employer has secured the payment of compensation in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such notices shall contain the name and address of the carrier, if any, with whom the employer has secured payment of compensation and the date of the expiration of the policy. The department may by rule prescribe the form of the notices and require carriers to provide the notices to policyholders.
(2) A notice stating: “Anti-Fraud Reward Program.Rewards of up to $25,000 may be paid to persons providing information to the Department of Financial Services leading to the arrest and conviction of persons committing insurance fraud, including employers who illegally fail to obtain workers’ compensation coverage. Persons may report suspected fraud to the department at   (Phone No.)  . A person is not subject to civil liability for furnishing such information, if such person acts without malice, fraud, or bad faith.”
History.s. 40, ch. 17481, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 5966(39); ss. 17, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 23, ch. 78-300; s. 124, ch. 79-40; s. 21, ch. 79-312; s. 43, ch. 89-289; s. 56, ch. 90-201; s. 52, ch. 91-1; s. 125, ch. 97-103; s. 7, ch. 98-125; s. 42, ch. 2002-194; s. 15, ch. 2002-236; s. 487, ch. 2003-261.

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Allen v. Est. of Carman, 281 So. 2d 317 (Fla. 1973).

Cited 18 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...urchase and acceptance of the policy, not the posting of notice. Indeed, *323 as early as 1943 we held, in Hughes v. B.F. Goodrich Co., 152 Fla. 170, 11 So.2d 313, 1) that compliance by the employer with the notice-posting requirements of Fla. Stat. § 440.40, F.S.A., was not a prerequisite to the statutory presumed acceptance of the provisions of the act by employees, and 2) that the failure to post notice did not give the employee a right to maintain an action at common law....
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Ocean Reef Club, Inc. v. Wilczewski, 99 So. 3d 1 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 4352, 2012 WL 934028

it known to the employee that it has done so, § 440.40, Fla. Stat., Wilczewski and Leon argue that such
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Special Disability Trust Fund v. City of Hialeah, 388 So. 2d 1372 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1980 Fla. App. LEXIS 17797

Disability Trust Fund, 288 So.2d 204 (Fla.1974), and § 440.40(4)(f)l, to receive reimbursement from the Special