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Supporters urge raising $15,000 cap on disfigurement benefits, expanding covered body areas
Summary
Lawmakers and advocates pressed the committee to update a workers' compensation formula that testifiers said caps disfigurement awards at $15,000 and limits scar-based awards to scars on the hands, neck and face; supporters proposed indexing the cap and expanding coverage to the entire body (House 2105).
Representative Chris Hendricks and Representative Bridal (filed with Hendricks) told the committee that House 2105 would remove a $15,000 statutory cap on scar-and-disfigurement awards and expand compensable disfigurement from scars limited to the hands, neck and face to scars across the entire body.
Why it matters: Testimony framed the provision as a 1990s-era limit that has not…
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