HB1590 Summary

• Amends the Workers' Compensation Act to allow the maximum weekly compensation rate for temporary total incapacity lasting more than 3 working days to be decreased by the same percentage as any decrease in the State's average weekly wage in covered industries under the Unemployment Insurance Act.

• Sets the weekly compensation rate for permanent total disability, death benefits, amputation of a member, and enucleation of an eye at 50% of the State's average weekly wage in covered industries.

• Maintains existing provisions for medical services, vocational rehabilitation, temporary partial disability benefits, permanent partial disability schedules for specific body parts, and supplementary adjustments based on wage changes.

• Applies changes to injury compensation rates based on whether accidents occurred before or after February 1, 2006, with varying week amounts for specific losses.