HB1818 - Tennessee - Labor And Workforce Development, Dept. Of, Workers' Compensation

Companion Bill SB0322. Workers' Compensation - Authorizes commissioner of labor and workforce development to issue order assigning temporary responsibility for paying benefits and loss adjustment expenses among insurance carriers when there is dispute as to which carrier should pay benefits. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 56. Fiscal Summary for HB1818 / *SB0322MINIMAL Bill Summary for HB1818 / *SB0322 This bill requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development, or the commissioner's designee, to order appropriate workers' compensation benefits to be paid on an equal basis by the insurance carrier and the self-insured employer in any case where: (1) An employer changes insurance carriers, becomes insured after having been self-insured, or having been insured, becomes approved to be self-insured; (2) The compensability [...]

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