HB2652

Report Title:

Workers' Compensation; Injuries Due to Delayed Treatment

Description:

Provides that an employer shall bear responsibility for any subsequent costs associated with injuries or complications that may have been caused by delays in the original prescribed treatments or rehabilitation services for an injured employee.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2652
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to workers' compensation.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 386, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§386- Injuries due to delayed treatment. If an employer is found by the director of labor and industrial relations, appellate board, or any court, to have frivolously challenged the recommended treatments or rehabilitation services for an injured employee, the employer shall be responsible for any subsequent costs associated with injuries or complications that may have been caused by delays in the original prescribed treatments or rehabilitation services for the injured employee, including any attorney's fees incurred by the injured employee to obtain the recommended treatments or rehabilitation services."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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