Kristin Bausch - Fresh Take Florida

Florida failed for nearly three months to pay tens of thousands of health-care claims for the state's sickest and neediest children due to software glitches blamed on the corporate merger of its two largest payment vendors, officials and executives said.

Florida lawmakers are considering legislation that would provide disability or death payments for first responders infected during the pandemic – but not before rewriting the bill to avoid limiting payments to ones who were vaccinated if employers required it.