Purpose


Pursuant to a petition to initiate rulemaking, the proposed rules are written to comply with the requirement in section 440.45(4) that the Office of Judges of Compensation Claims adopt rules setting forth uniform criteria for measuring the performance of the office, including, but not limited to, the number of cases assigned and resolved, the age of pending and resolved cases, timeliness of decisions, extraordinary fee awards, and other data necessary for the judicial nominating commission to review the performance of judges as required in paragraph (2)(c).