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Article: State workers' compensation legislation enacted in 1996.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
- Author:
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Laws were amended in 37 States, with New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee enacting comprehensive changes
Last year, 37 State legislatures amended their workers' compensation laws, with Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee enacting comprehensive changes.
Kentucky redefined "injury" as a traumatic work-related event, including cumulative trauma, causing harmful bodily change; removed the harmful effects of aging from the criteria; removed references to wage-earning capacity from the definition of disability; allowed arbitrators, now a part of the adjudication procedures, to refer employees for evaluation to State ...