What's happening this week in workers' compensation? IWP's weekly legislative wrap-up, State of the States, keeps you up to date on important matters within the workers' compensation and pharmacy arena.
This week's legislative wrap-up contains updates including:
- After resuming in-person sessions, the Oklahoma House is considering a workers' compensation reform bill that could increase maximum weekly limits for disability awards, among other changes.
- In New Jersey, the legislature is considering the expansion of workers' compensation benefits to include front line workers who contract COVID-19 and to provide benefits to the dependents of essential employees who die from COVID-19.
- Governor Wolf of Pennsylvania vetoed a bill designed to expand access to telemedicine due to certain restrictive changes that deemed the bill unsupportable.
This edition also includes an update from California and Virginia.
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