Workers’ Comp Action Alert

Please urge your State Senator to support workers’-comp reform! Senate Bill 5822, would enact a series of workers’-compensation reforms designed to reduce workers’-compensation time-loss costs and help reduce workers’-compensation premiums.

This is the ONLY bill before the Legislature that could help reduce employment costs for employers!

The bill

clarifies the definition of occupational disease to help ensure these diagnoses are clearly related to the employee’s job.
removes the current age restriction for workers’ to settle their workers’-compensation claims with employers rather than going on time loss. (Currently, a worker has to be 50 years old to even be considered for a settlement. This means that younger workers are stuck on time loss and dealing with L&I rather than being able to get out of the system quickly and back to work. This also leaves employers paying much higher time-loss costs for a pension system that pays attorneys first -- before it pays workers.)
provides additional cost-reducing administrative fixes that are needed in the system.

Click here to send your state Senator an email urging in them to support SB 5822!