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Subcommittee tables bill setting consumer protections for paid veteran-claims consultants
Summary
A Virginia subcommittee gently tabled HB 2,112, the Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act, after testimony from veteran-run companies and veterans organizations that sharply disagreed about whether private claims consultants should be regulated or barred.
A House Labor and Commerce subcommittee on an unspecified date voted 4-2 to table HB 2,112, the Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act, which would add consumer-protection rules for companies that assist veterans with Department of Veterans Affairs disability claims.
The bill, introduced by Majority Leader Jennifer McClellan Herring (referred to in the hearing as leader Herring), would prohibit advance payments before services, require providers to inform veterans about free resources, require written consent for paid services, restrict claims consulting during the first 365 days after discharge to a signed waiver, require written contracts with contingent-fee caps, ban guarantees of outcomes and reliance on overseas…
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