Workers' compensation; compensable consequences. (SB759)

Introduced By

Sen. Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Workers' compensation; compensable consequences.  Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a subsequent injury to an employee is a compensable consequence of the employee's primary injury if the subsequent injury is to a body part or system that sustained a primary injury that (i) was accepted as compensable by the employer or (ii) was found to be compensable by the Workers' Compensation Commission. An employer may rebut this presumption by clear and convincing evidence that the subsequent injury is not causally connected to the primary injury because the injury is not a natural consequence that flows from the primary injury or that the injury is the result of an independent intervening cause attributable to the employee's own intentional conduct. The measure also provides that the period in which an employee may request the Commission to review a prior award based on a change in conditions in claims for medical treatment for a subsequent injury that is a compensable consequence of a primary injury is 24 months after the last to occur of the date of the employer's last payment of indemnity compensation or the last payment of any medical benefits. Currently, the limitation period for claims asserting such a change in conditions is 24 months from the last day for which compensation was paid. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
12/07/2010Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11100661D
12/07/2010Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/18/2011Impact statement from DPB (SB759)
02/08/2011Left in Commerce and Labor