CT SB00319

Prohibits employers and insurers from denying medical, surgical, hospital, or nursing services to employees with work-related injuries solely because the employee has reached maximum medical improvement.

Defines "maximum medical improvement" as the point when a medically determinable physical impairment from injury has stabilized and no further treatment is reasonably expected to improve the condition.

Requires employers and insurers to continue furnishing medical and surgical aid or hospital and nursing services for ongoing treatment of the physical impairment that resulted in the maximum medical improvement diagnosis.

Effective date: October 1, 2014.