HB 283 Summary

• Establishes comprehensive notice requirements for employers regarding temporary and permanent disability benefits, including notifications of benefit amounts, payment schedules, delays in determinations, denials, and terminations.

• Requires employers who deny compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations within 30 days of filing the initial injury report; failure to do so creates a presumption that the injury is compensable.

• Mandates employers furnish up to $10,000 in medical care, services, and supplies to injured employees immediately following injury and continuing as reasonably needed, or until the employer files a denial report with the Director, whichever is earlier.

• Clarifies that failure to provide notice of injury does not bar a workers' compensation claim if any person with authority in the employer's interest had knowledge of the injury or the assertion of the injury claim.

• Establishes notice and information requirements for death benefits, medical examinations, and disputes, including prescribed statements about employee rights and deadlines printed in no smaller than 10-point font.