Summary
The procedural rule revisions improve definitions, implement mandatory electronic filing, streamline the service of pleadings, promote the timely resolution of attorney's fees and costs, discourage duplication and unnecessary filings, encourage timely orders, streamline mediation, provide for voluntary mediation, promote timely discovery and entry of discovery orders, streamline motion practice, allow JCCs to approve stipulations, and streamline the appointment of expert medical advisors, with a resulting more efficient and self-executing adjudicatory process.