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Committee advances competing bills on repetitive-motion workers’ compensation standard; debate focuses on 50% threshold
Summary
Senators debated three competing approaches to repetitive-motion injuries in workers’ compensation — a 50% causation standard, a more permissive standard modeled on existing Virginia law, and an alternative compromise billed as a pilot; the committee moved to report Senator Williams Graves’ approach to finance after intense testimony.
The committee held an extended debate on a set of bills that would change how repetitive-use and repetitive-motion injuries are handled under Virginia’s workers’ compensation system. Three concepts were before the panel: a Williams-Graves bill to expand coverage without a 50% primary-cause requirement; a McDougall/Head compromise that would include a delayed enactment and other guardrails; and an approach incorporating a 50% causation standard used in Tennessee.
Senator Williams Graves described her bill as a way to extend…
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