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AL SB330
Bill
AI Summary
SB330 - Workers' Compensation Law Comprehensive Revision
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Amends Alabama workers' compensation law across 22 sections to revise definitions, streamline procedures, and update compensation structures and medical service provisions.
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Increases burial expense allowance from $3,000 to $6,500 and establishes permanent total disability benefit limits of 75 years of age or 500 weeks, whichever is greater.
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Modifies medical services governance by restructuring the Workers' Compensation Medical Services Board to include 16 members representing diverse stakeholder groups (employers, employees, physicians, hospitals, physical therapists, claims professionals, and judiciary).
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Establishes standardized maximum fee schedules for medical providers based on prevailing rates with annual adjustments limited to cost-of-living increases, while allowing employers to negotiate mutually agreed rates with providers.
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Requires judges to enter trial orders within 90 days and mandates parties submit written joint stipulations 14 days before trial; adds pain management treatment provisions and shifts certain procedural requirements while deleting verification requirements for filing complaints.
Legislative Description
Workers' Compensation Law, revision of defintions, Department of Labor approves reimbursements, out of state inquiries, settlements, evidence, advanced payments, maximum comp. limits, burial expenses, physician panels, delete certain verification requirements, stipulations for trials, judge's order within 90 days, mutally agreed contracts, Secs. 25-5-1, 25-5-3, 25-5-11.1, 25-5-35, 25-5-56, 25-5-57, 25-5-67, 25-5-68, 25-5-77, 25-5-80, 25-5-81, 25-5-88, 25-5-90, 25-5-110, 25-5-117, 25-5-197, 25-5-293, 25-5-310, 25-5-311, 25-5-312, 25-5-313, 25-5-314, 25-5-316 am'd.
Workers' Compensation
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development
4/2/2015