Brian S. Fischer, Esquire

Brian S. Fischer focuses his practice on the representation of employers in workers’ compensation premium disputes, stop work orders, and in a variety of other employment and labor law issues. Mr. Fischer has a diverse background, which includes all aspects of the interrelationship between employers, employee leasing companies, workers’ compensation carriers and the workers’ compensation system. As a practicing attorney and former partner in the firm of Fischer and Pfeffer, P.L., Mr. Fischer has represented both employees and uninsured employers for over 18 years in workers’ compensation and employment-related matters. In addition to workers compensation matters, he has represented clients in unemployment compensation cases, bankruptcy matters, and mechanic lien litigation.
 

As the past president and chief executive officer of an insurance-related holding company, Mr. Fischer developed and authored a comprehensive business plan to form a Florida domestic workers’ compensation carrier. In so doing, he was responsible for working with actuaries, underwriters, and reinsurance professionals to oversee and develop the financial model including the Statutory Insurance Pro Forma, Underwriting Guidelines, Claims Best Practices, and development of a reinsurance model for the proposed insurance carrier.

While serving as a senior vice president in charge of the insurance portfolio of a large private equity firm, Mr. Fischer developed and implemented a self-funded health care plan for the company’s internal employees, as well as a comprehensive health care plan for client companies of the firm’s affiliated employee leasing company. Mr. Fischer also served as president of a third party claims administrator, which administered self-funded and fully funded ERISA health care programs for large corporate clients and governmental medicaid programs targeting rural areas where HMO’s are traditionally less effective.

Mr. Fischer has served in executive or board positions of numerous workers’ compensation organizations. As past chair and long standing member of Florida Premium Fraud Task Force, Mr. Fischer is keenly aware of the various statutory and regulatory provisions to which both employers and employee leasing companies are subjected in any type of workers’ compensation premium dispute. He has also served as a founder and past president of Employers for Insurance Reform, Inc., a 501(3)C organization that studied and lobbied for reform of Florida’s workers compensation system; served on the board of Florida Workers’ Advocates; and chaired its Employer Relations Committee. During this time, Mr. Fischer authored an analysis of the Florida workers’ compensation system, titled: “Florida Workers’ Compensation and the Perpetual Insurance Crisis.”

Mr. Fischer earned his Bachelor of Science from Florida State University in 1984 and his Juris Doctorate in 1987 from Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University. He is admitted to practice in the State of Florida and the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida.