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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill intended to shield injured worker information from claimant’s attorneys to prevent attorney solicitation passed its first Senate committee on April 3, 2017. The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee approved a delete everything amendment before passing SB 1008. The delete everything amendment kept the original intent of the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House bill to shield workers’ comp claimant identifying information from claimant’s attorneys to prevent solicitation is moving quickly through its House committees. It passed its second committee on March 28, 2017 and has one committee left. FIC anticipates this bill, along with the substantive comp reform bill, will…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee passed its committee bill (PCB IBS 17-01) dealing with workers’ compensation reform on March 14, 2017 after over two hours of committee testimony, discussion, and debate and the narrow defeat of a very contentious strike all amendment. What became abundantly clear during the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill expanding workers’ compensation coverage for firefighters was workshopped in its first House committee on March 13, 2017. During a workshop, the committee takes testimony and discusses a bill, but no vote is taken on the bill. The Committee Chair did not indicate if/when the bill would be…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel All member sponsored bills have been filed for the 2017 Session. Following is a summary of bills filed as of March 12, 2017 that FIC is following related to workers’ compensation. The summary was prepared by FIC General Counsel Katrina Callaway based on her review of the bills. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel NCCI released its pricing of the House proposed workers’ compensation committee bills on March 10, 2017. The bills priced by NCCI were the draft bills workshopped in committee on March 7, 2017. The final versions of the bills, which are attached, were released by the committee on March 10,…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Senate staff Wednesday released on the Legislature’s Internet site a revised bill text and insurance committee analysis of an insurance insolvency regulation package (CS/SB 730) adopting provisions from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Insurer Receivership Model Act and the NAIC 2016 Workers Compensation Large Deductibles Study. See these links:…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Two proposed committee bills on workers’ compensation were workshopped by the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee during its committee meeting on March 7, 2017. Drafts of the bills have been previously provided to FIC members. One bill includes comprehensive comp reform and the other is a public records exemption…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Attached are two draft workers’ compensation bills that will be proposed and discussed by the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee during their committee meeting on March 7, 2017. One draft is the bill that contains the comp substantive reform provisions. The issues included in this bill are: attorney fees,…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Passidomo amendment with recommendations from the NAIC 2016, Workers Compensation Large Deductibles Study adopted by the committee is available from this link: 374774. Farmer amendment adopted by the committee is available from this link: 865748. Senate B&I Staff Analysis is available from this link: SB 730 Staff Analysis. It does not…