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:

• Members of the Iowa Association for Justice and workers’ compensation advocates are asking the Iowa Supreme Court for clarification on a 2017 workers’ compensation law that reduced benefits for specific injuries.
• Meanwhile, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hanford site is gaining attention surrounding a workers’ compensation law passed by the Washington legislature in 2018.
• In Colorado, SB11, enacted earlier this month, requires pharmacists who dispense opioids to inform patients about the dangers of the medications and to offer them an opioid antagonist such as Narcan.
• AdvisorSmith using the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, released its top 25 deadliest occupations in the country list.

This edition includes an update on national news.  

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