State CFO Jimmy Patronis
Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis vows state can and will do better for the families of children brain-damaged at birth
Patronis: We ve got to figure out a way to make things easier for them
Declaring that Florida leaders can and will do better for the families of catastrophically brain-damaged children, the state s top financial regulator has initiated an audit of the state program that oversees care for those injured in childbirth.
Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said Thursday that the Office of Insurance Regulation, which he supervises, will examine the books of the state s Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, or NICA. Patronis office already has begun an inspection of the program, which was the subject of an investigative report published hours earlier by the
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