Ch. 440 runs on its own clock. So does the page that tracks it.
Comp is not circuit-court practice: the OJCC computes time under 60Q-6.109, three periods in the chapter are business days and the rest are not, and the § 440.19 limitation moves every time a benefit is paid. Trial Commander computes that chain — notice, first installment, pay-and-investigate, petition, mediation, hearing, appeal — from the dates on the file. A practice-area edition at +$30 per user per month, enabled by the firm admin.
The 120-day window runs from the first payment
§ 440.20(4) gives the carrier 120 days from the initial provision of benefits to admit or deny compensability — not 120 days from notice. The chapter's other 120-day clock, § 440.20(11)(a), does run from employer notice, on the unrepresented-settlement path. They are different clocks with different triggers, and both are computed separately.
The limitations ladder, not a single date
§ 440.19 is two years from the date the employee knew the injury arose out of work, tolled one year by each payment of indemnity or furnishing of remedial care. The page shows all three limbs — the base period, the payment toll, the treatment toll — and which one produced the operative date, so the answer can be checked rather than trusted.
Business days where the statute says business days
§ 440.13(3)(d), § 440.185(3) and § 440.15(4)(b) say business days; § 440.20(2)(a) says the 14th calendar day; the rest say days. Each is counted the way its own subsection reads, on the nine-day § 110.117 holiday list that 60Q-6.109 adopts — not on the circuit court's calendar.
Payment, penalty and interest
The § 440.20(2)(a) first installment, the § 440.20(2)(b) medical-bill window, and the § 440.20(6)-(8) late-payment penalty and interest computed from the due date on the file, so a late installment is visible before it is argued about.
The petition chain through the appeal
Petition under § 440.192, mediation, hearing and order, and the Rule 9.180 appellate window — the procedural chain tracked on the same calendar as the rest of the firm's work.
Waiver, flagged
A carrier that misses the § 440.20(4) window waives the right to deny compensability, and the limitations defense is waived unless raised in the initial response. Both are shown as flags on the clock they belong to, not as a footnote in a memo.
These numbers are read from the product's own registries at build time, not written by marketing.
- ·Ch. 440 clocks — § 440.185 notice, the § 440.20(2)(a) first installment, the § 440.20(4) 120-day pay-and-investigate window
- ·§ 440.19 limitations ladder — two years from knowledge, tolled one year by each payment or authorized treatment
- —Every statute read from the 2026 Florida Statutes, every OJCC rule from Ch. 60Q-6
- —Reviewed and approved by a Florida-barred attorney before the surface shipped
- —Gated twice: the reviewer signature, and the firm's edition grant
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