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SF 3644 Senate Long Description

E Relating to workers compensation; including vacation and holiday pay in the computation of daily wage; defining local social services agency to clarifying the inclusion of certain voluntary uncompensated workers in the definition of employee; providing for third party liability regardless of the type of benefits or compensation recoverability, granting liable nonemployer third parties a right of contribution against the employer, authorizing employers to avoid contribution exposure by affirmatively waiving the right to recover workers compensation benefits paid; requiring attorneys to file statements of attorney fees, time limit, requiring insurer release of the money to the employee upon failure to file; increasing temporary total disability payments, modifying a certain provision providing for recommencement of temporary total disability compensation after cessation for return to work and requiring employer or insurer notice to employees of the duration limit on the payment of temporary total compensation; increasing certain permanent partial disability payments and providing for lump sum payments of the compensation; providing an additional presumption of retirement from the labor market; providing for regulation of the terms and removal of members of the rehabilitation review panel; modifying the time limit for filing retraining requests; eliminating the requirement for commissioner of labor and industry review of certain claims for certain medical benefits; specifying the minimum amount of dependency compensation; increasing the maximum burial expense benefit; providing for payments to the estate of employees dying due to personal injury in dependency compensation nonentitlement cases; modifying certain special compensation fund payment requirements; requiring employers to give employees a certain information sheet at the time of furnishing a copy of the first report of injury; changing the settlement and contingency reserve account to the cost allocation account, modifying certain payment requirements; specifying certain legislative findings relating to the surplus under the Minnesota workers compensation assigned risk plan, providing for transfer of a portion of the surplus to the special compensation fund to reduce the current and future obligations of the second injury and the supplementary benefits programs administered by the department of labor and industry, reducing contributions to the fund after the transfer, requiring department status reports to the legislature on certain dates, nonseverability provisions, funds not transferable to remain in the assigned risk plan fund, setting a transfer priority; repealing the provision providing for the payments to the special compensation fund upon the death of employees without dependents (mk, ja)