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NY S04518
Bill
Status
6/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jessica Ramos
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AI Summary
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Amends the workers' compensation law to explicitly permit claimants' attorneys or representatives to communicate verbally or in writing with injured employees' treating medical providers or medical consultants
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Establishes that such communications between a claimant's legal representative and medical providers shall not constitute improper influence under the law
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Protects medical opinions by prohibiting the use of attorney-provider communications as a basis to diminish or discredit the treating provider's or medical consultant's opinion
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Creates a legal presumption that communications between claimants' attorneys and medical providers are not attempts to improperly influence medical opinions
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Updates gendered language in existing workers' compensation law provisions (replacing "him" and "his" with gender-neutral terms)
Legislative Description
Provides that certain communications between a claimant's attorney or representative and an injured employee's treating provider or a claimant's medical consultant are not improper influence or an attempt to improperly influence.
Last Action
ordered to third reading cal.139
2/24/2026