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ACTON v. FORT LAUDERDALE HOSP.

No. 62780.

440 So.2d 1282 (1983)

Walter Nevin ACTON II, Petitioner, v. FORT LAUDERDALE HOSPITAL and the Insurance Company of North America, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 10, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank E. Maloney, Jr., Macclenny, and John D. Rawls, Jacksonville, for petitioner.

Michael H. Lax of Lax & Stevens, Miami, and Steven Kronenberg of Adams, Kelley & Kronenberg, Miami, for respondents.

Joseph C. Jacobs and Thomas M. Ervin, Jr. of Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom & Kitchen, Tallahassee, for American Insurance Association, Alliance of American Insurers, and National Association of Independent Insurers; Richard A. Sicking, Miami, for Florida AFL-CIO; Barry M. Salzman, St. Petersburg, for Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; Frederick B. Karl and S. James Brainerd, Tallahassee, for Florida Association of Insurance Agents; David M. Redstone, Tallahassee, for State of Florida Dept. of Labor and Employment Security, Division of Workers' Compensation; and Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Eric J. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for State of Florida, amici curiae.

McDONALD, Justice.

This case is before us to review a decision of the First District Court of Appeal that expressly declared valid subsections 440.15(3)(a) and (b), Florida Statutes (1981). The district court upheld this portion of the Workers' Compensation Law against challenges that it violated the constitutional rights of injured workers to equal protection and access to the courts. Acton v. Ft. Lauderdale Hospital, 418 So.2d 1099

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