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Department-requested cleanup bill would simplify workers’ compensation reporting and tighten privacy on medical status forms
Summary
House Bill 428, carried by Representative Thiel, would clarify which employer is responsible for workers’ compensation when one firm loans a worker to another, change a quarterly insurer report to annual reporting, and remove personal health information from the medical status form.
Representative Thiel opened the hearing on House Bill 428 and described it as a Department of Labor cleanup bill with four specific changes: clarification of employer responsibility when one employer furnishes a worker to another, a cross-reference cleanup, changing an insurer reporting requirement from quarterly to annual, and limiting personal health information on the workers-compensation medical status form.
Quinlan O'Connor, chief legal counsel for the Department of Labor and Industry, told the committee section 1 addresses litigation that produced an unfair result when two uninsured…
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