HB 283 Summary

• Establishes comprehensive notice requirements for employers regarding temporary total/partial disability benefits, permanent disability benefits, and death benefits, including timing and content specifications for initial notices, delay notices, denial notices, and termination notices.

• Requires employers who deny injury compensability to submit a written report to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations within 30 days of filing the initial injury report; failure to timely file results in presumption of compensability that can only be rebutted by evidence discovered after the filing deadline.

• Mandates employers furnish injured employees up to $10,000 for medical care, services, and supplies immediately following a work injury and continuing as long as reasonably needed, or until the employer files a written denial report with the director, whichever occurs first.

• 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 assertion of an injury claim.

• Takes effect July 1, 2023.