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Insurers and lawyers clash over proposed limits to workers' compensation incapacity benefits for retirees
Summary
Attorneys for injured workers and municipal retirees opposed HB 5267, warning that denying total incapacity benefits to retirees would leave disabled older workers without support; insurers argued restricting benefits restores predictability and limits shifting costs to taxpayers.
The Judiciary Committee heard sharply divided testimony on HB 5267, a proposal to limit eligibility for temporary total incapacity benefits when an injured worker has retired.
Attorney Eric Chester, representing injured workers and unions, told the panel the bill would "fundamentally undermine nearly a century of settled workers' compensation law" and unfairly deny benefits to…
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