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Assembly extends workers’ compensation protections, removes labor-attachment requirement for certain claimants
Summary
Lawmakers approved a bill that prevents insurers and employers from denying or withholding certain workers’ compensation benefits on the basis that a claimant failed to demonstrate attachment to the labor market; sponsor said the change closes a loophole that has denied benefits to recovering workers.
The Assembly on Wednesday approved legislation that eliminates the requirement that some injured workers must show continued attachment to the labor market in order to continue receiving certain types of workers' compensation benefits.
Sponsor Assemblymember Cruz said the 2017 reforms limited the “attachment to the labor market” defense for permanent disability categories, but that insurers continued to use the doctrine to deny…
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