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House adopts workers’ compensation changes and renews Line-of-Duty benefit
Summary
The House approved a committee substitute for House Bill 497, a workers’ compensation package that clarifies prevailing-factor standards, adds an early motion-to-dismiss mechanism, removes a double-compensation provision for temporary awards and renews the Line of Duty Compensation Act via amendment with an emergency clause.
The Missouri House on March 20 adopted House Committee Substitute for House Bill 4 97 as amended, advancing a package of workers’ compensation changes the sponsor said would restore “fairness and efficiency” to the system.
The sponsor, the gentleman from Saint Louis, said the substitute clarifies the prevailing-factor standard (how a work injury is weighed against preexisting conditions), changes how health-insurance offsets…
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