Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...Claimant maintains that he had no recourse below; thus, seeking review in this court was his only path for relief. We disagree. The Florida Administrative Code Rule 60Q-6.126(1) provides that “[a]ny motion for disqualification of a judge shall be made and determined pursuant to Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.330.” Section 440.442 provides that “[JCCs] shall observe and abide by the Code of Judicial Conduct as adopted by the Florida Supreme Court.” Canon 3(B)7 of the Code addresses ex parte communications between a judge and persons involved in a proceeding....

...And when we look, we see there is no statute making the supreme court’s professional code—adopted to govern lawyers as court officers operating within the judiciary—applicable when those lawyers are appearing in workers’ compensation administrative proceedings. But cf. § 440.442, Fla....