Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1340

E Modifying certain workers compensation provisions; requiring the commissioner
of commerce to annually establish the special +compensation fund premium
surcharge rate to be used by insurers for policies with a +certain effective
date, requiring the rate to be sufficient to satisfy the +pro rata share of
assessment obligations attributable to insured employers; +modifying the limit
on annual assessments for the workers compensation self +insurance security
fund; eliminating the requirement for insurers and self +insured employers to
file annual statements with the commissioner of labor +and industry on legal
fees and costs incurred; modifying the definition of paid +indemnity losses for
special compensation fund purposes and modifying certain +fund payments
provisions, requiring the portion of the total assessment +allocated to self
insured employers to be based on certain paid indemnity losses, +providing for
the purchase of replacement policies and imposing certain +reporting
requirements; providing for electronic transmission of itemized +treatment
charges to insurers by health care providers; eliminating the +requirements for
first report of injury forms to include an employer compensation +payment
declaration; expanding the authority of compensation judges to +appoint neutral
physicians or surgeons to examine injuries; temporarily prohibiting +the annual
adjustment to the medical fee conversion factor (ra, ja)