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2006 WORKERS'
COMPENSATION LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
Following is The Business Council's 2006 Legislative
Program. It identifies priority issues to be addressed by the
Committees and Councils during 2006.
- Support payment of comp benefits in a non-scheduled permanent-partial
impairment case to a minimum of 250 weeks and a maximum of 500
weeks.
- Support adoption of objective medical guidelines to determine
the degree of disability in permanent-partial disability cases.The
guidelines should consider anatomic and functional disability
and provide a standardized, replicable method for physicians
to use to determine comprehensive, whole person impairment percentages.
- Support
reduction in the assessment for the second injury fund from
150 percent of the prior year disbursements to 115 percent.
- Support
partial benefit offset when the claimant begins to receive,
or becomes eligible for, pension and/or social security benefits.
- Support
payment of scheduled awards at one-half the claimant's total
disability for periods that do not represent actual time lost.
- Support
amendments to sections 240 and 241 of the labor law to create
a comparative negligence standard on third party suits.
- Support
prohibiting payment of benefits if the employee injures themselves
during the perpetration of an illegal act or if the injury
occurred under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
- Support changing
the methodology for comp assessments for self-insured trusts
(and safety groups and the State Fund, if they desire). After
the change, the self-insured trusts should be responsible for
collecting their same share of total assessments without shifting
any of the responsibility to other insurers in the system.
- Support
aggressive pursuit of fraudulent cases in the comp system.
Click here for the 2006
Legislative Program for all Issue areas.
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