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Lawmakers hear push to remove $15,000 workers’‑compensation scar cap and index benefit to wages
Summary
Representative Chris Hendricks and supporters urged repeal of a fixed $15,000 cap on scar/disfigurement awards and proposed indexing to 30 times the state average weekly wage so benefits rise with wages; advocates said current law limits awards to scarring on hands, neck and face and excludes other body locations.
Boston — The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development on June 18 heard testimony from lawmakers and attorneys urging removal of a longstanding $15,000 cap on workers’‑compensation scarring/disfigurement awards and expansion of compensable scarring to the whole body.
Representative Christopher Hendricks described H.2105, “An Act Creating Fairness in Workers’ Compensation Disfigurement Benefits,” as an update to a…
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