Bill Text: HI HCR58 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Workers' Compensation Claims Status; State Employees; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-31 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Oshiro, Tokioka excused (2). [HCR58 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-HCR58-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	58
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the department of labor and industrial relations to submit a report on the status and number of pending workers' compensation claims made by state employees.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the underlying premise of the State's workers' compensation law is to ensure the timely medical treatment and compensation to employees who have been injured due to a work-related incident; and

 

     WHEREAS, state employees have experienced significant delays in the processing of their workers' compensation claims; and

     WHEREAS, injured claimants have complained that scheduling an independent medical examination can take longer than a year despite repeated requests and inquiries; and

 

     WHEREAS, payments following the execution of a settlement agreement have also been known to take over six months to process; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, the Senate concurring, that the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is requested to issue a report that includes data collected from calendar years 2013 and 2014 on:

 

     (1)  The number of processed and unprocessed workers' compensation cases for injured state employees and the status of those cases;

 

     (2)  The number of claims made and the number of cases that have been settled, but in which payment has not been made; and

 

     (3)  The average time period taken to completely resolve workers' compensation claims for state employees; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is requested to submit the report, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016;

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of Labor of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Workers' Compensation Claims Status; State Employees; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations