Archive Workers Compensation Committee

Staff Contact: Margaret Moree

Committee Updates

• October 27, 2010
  Disability Duration Guidelines
  Forms! We Have Forms
  Cross-Examination Regulations
  Attorney Fee Panel To Convene
  Group Self-Insurance Rulemaking
  
  
• September 22, 2010
  Committee Hears from WCB Leadership
  More Changes Coming; Does It Feel Like the Halloween Witch’s Cauldron Brewing?
  Insurance Department Releases Task Force Impairment Guideline Recommendations
  • NYS Workers’ Compensation Board Navigating Medical Treatment Guidelines - Fall, 2010
  • Hon. Robert E. Beloten, September 15, 2010, Letter to Workers' Comp Board
    
  • Proposed Disability Duration Guidelines, NYS Department of Insurance, September 2010
  
  
• August 27, 2010
• August 13, 2010
  • Final Comments on Proposed Rule Making on Medical Treatment Guidelines
  • Medical Treatment Guidelines Comment Period Closing, More Changes on the Way
  • Workers’ Comp Committee To Meet September 15th
• July 1, 2010
  • Rulemaking in Implementing Medical Treatment Guidelines Released
    
    
• April 15, 2010
  
• State Supreme Court Sides With Group Self-Insured Trusts
• Coming to a Theater Near You: MAP Webinar, May 7
• New Hire
• Looking for Your Summer Reading List?
• In Case You Missed It: Board Now Publishing Decisions on Web site
  
  
• 02/26/10
  • "Managed Adjudication Path" Update
    
    
• 02/23/10 Committee Update
  • What is MAP
  • Implementation of internal business improvement processes
  • Due process rights of both employers and injured workers
    
    
• 02/09/10 Committee Update
  The Workers' Compensation Board has just released on its web site the draft Medical Treatment Guidelines.
  
  
• 01/20/10 Committee Update
  • State Budget Relevant Provisions
  • Governor Paterson Names Two for Positions at WCB 
  • Workers’ Compensation Committee to Meet on February 3
    
    
• 11/25/09 Committee Update
• Return to Work Update
• Return to Work Presentation

• 11/13/09 Workers' Comp Memorandum of Board Panel Decision

• 09/15/09 Committee Update
• Board Releases Revised Medical Report Forms
• Senate Labor Committee Hosts Public Hearing on Recording Testimony
• Medical Treatment Guidelines: Closer to Implementation
• Other 2007 Reform Implementation Issues
• What’s Ahead for 2010?
  
  
• 07/30/09 Committee Update
  • Committee Meeting Scheduled
  • End of Session Legislative Summary
  • Council Comments on “Incentive” Rules
  • Board Regulatory Agenda
    
    
    
• 07/22/09 Workers’ Comp Board Regulatory Agenda
• 07/01/09 Proposed “Workplace Safety and Loss Prevention Incentive” Rule
  • 2007 Statutory Changes
  • Department of Insurance Proposed Premium Discounts
         * Business Council Comments
  • Department of Labor Proposed Program Requirements
         * Business Council Comments
    
    
• 04/10/09 - PPD Caps Undermined by Proposed Legislation, Workers’ Comp Board Program Bills, Other Comp Legislation, RFP for Medical Guidelines Training Services
• 01/30/09 - New C-2 Forms, Legislative Proposal to Index Clinic Funds and Comp Assessments
• 12/31/08 - Executive Budget Issues, WCB Forms, Proposed Dental Fee Schedule
• 12/05/08 - Annual “Safety Net” Report, New Workers’ Comp Solution for Manufacturers, Occupational Health Clinics

2009-2010 Legislative Memos
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Current NYS Workers’ Comp Legislation (4/10/09)

• A.469 (John), Oppose, Index Funding Increases for Occupational Health Clinics
• S.1795 (Duane)/ A.7767 (Kellner), Oppose, Permits workers suffering sexual assault in the workplace to recover damages from their employer
• S.2364 (Onorato), Oppose, Workers’ Compensation Medical Diagnostic Networks
• S.2781 (Onorato) / A.2135 (John), Oppose, Determination of Workers’ Comp Permanent Total Disability
• S.2978-B (Savino), Oppose, Permits workers’ compensation claimants to fill prescriptions outside plan’s pharmacy network
  
• A.3117-B (Schroeder) / S. 1970-C (Stachowski), Oppose, Provides for a COLA to Workers' Compensation Death and Permanent Total Benefits, Past and Future
• S.7455-A (Savino) / A.10311 (John), Oppose, Provides Higher In-Patient Hospital Reimbursement Rate for Certain Spinal Fusion Procedures
  
• A.10343 (John), Oppose, Repeals Conciliation Section of the Workers Compensation Law; Requires Hearings to be Held within 20 Days of Request

2007-08 Legislative Memo

• S.4738 / A.7999, allows disability benefits for non-disabled persons
• S.6325, Aggregate trust fund
• S.7849 Workers' Compensation notice requirements

Issues

• Issues in Brief - Business Council Priority Issues
  • Workers Comp Reform
  • Workers Comp Assessments
  • Comparison of workers' compensation benefit legislation

Council Workers' Comp News

• Extra business costs in New York total more than $35 billion, Public Policy Institute study finds (December 26, 2006)
• New Business Council survey: New York State employers say health-insurance costs and costs of workers' comp, energy, and business taxes are their top policy concerns (December 19, 2006)
• Council urges approval of bill to change how some employers pay workers' comp assessments
• Legislative session ends with defeat of infamous 'Wal-Mart' bills; Lawmakers also pass Council-supported bill to change workers' comp assessments (June 26, 2006)
• Leading lawmakers introduce sweeping workers' comp reforms (June 21, 2006)
• Debt reform, workers' comp reform, avoiding new health-insurance mandates top Council's legislative priorities (June 13, 2006)
• Business leaders say workers' comp damages state's economy (April 25, 2006)
• Council and others in a coalition urge Albany to enact workers' comp reform this year 3/1/06
• Business Council launches Comp Watch '06 to document case for workers' comp reform; an 'e-advocacy' campaign also begins 2/1/06
  
  
• Special Funds
• Business Council testimony before the Governor's Study Commission on Workers' Compensation Special Funds