All Workers' Compensation Legislation - Kentucky
SR267
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Adopted 38-0 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of David H. Snowden to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2011. Comment on Bill SR263
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Adopted 38-0 Bill Text Confirm the appointment of James F. Howard to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR258
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Adopted 38-0 Bill Text Confirm the appointment of Rita Y. Phillips to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR251
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Adopted 38-0 Bill Text Confirm the appointment of Dwight T. Lovan as the Executive Director of the Office of Workers' Claims. SR21
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government Bill Text Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of Otto Wilson Goff. HB766
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.817 to require the Ky. Employers Mutual Insurance Authority (KEMI) to make individual rate filings for the voluntary market and the market of last resort; amend KRS 342.819 to establish conditions for dividend payments; amend KRS 304.50-055 to require that aggregate investments of a workers' compensation self-insured group be consistent with KRS 304.7-403. HB758
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 183) Bill Text Amend various sections of Subtitle 50 of KRS Chapter 304, relating to workers' compensation self-insured groups to extend application of the subtitle to "bona fide" trade associations; clarify that minimum surplus exemption applies to a group operating under a plan approved by the executive director, or a remedial plan approved prior to August 3, 2004; provide that security deposit requirements are based on an audited rather than certified statement of financial condition; establish requirements for banks or trust companies for security deposits and require approval by the executive director; require a custodial bank or trust company to have capital and surplus of $25 million or more, except that those licensed and regulated in Kentucky shall have $10 million or more; permit the purchase of certificates of deposit from any duly chartered bank; allow investment in equity securities that are actively traded on any registered national securities exchanges; clarify that eligible securities [...] show full description SB204
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - To Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.732 to make the retraining incentive benefit cash option available at age 52 rather than at age 57. SB199
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 55) Bill Text Amend sections of KRS Chapter 342 to adopt the fifth edition, rather than the most recent edition, of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. SB198
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.610 to require that a contractor is liable unless the subcontractor makes payment of compensation required under the workers' compensation law. SB197
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.265 to require that an award for income benefits with a present value of $25,000 or less be paid in a lump sum upon request of the employee and approval of an administrative law judge. HB624
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.610 to permit employee to sue employer for reckless conduct. HB601
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.730 to require termination of workers' compensation income benefits when a worker qualifies for normal Social Security retirement benefits or 4 years, rather than 2 years, following the injury or last exposure, whichever last occurs. HB598
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.320 to revise formula for attorney fees and increase maximum fee from $12,000 to $20,000. HB597
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to amend the definition of "injury" to provide a rebuttable presumption of injury for an emergency medical technician, law enforcement officer, corrections worker, firefighter, police officer, or health-care worker who contracts a communicable disease resulting from exposure to bodily fluids and tissue. HB575
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.0011 to include additional multipliers in the definition of "permanent disability rating"; amend 342.730 to conform. HB574
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.038 to require the executive director to provide notice to an injured employee of rights and benefits provided under the workers' compensation law. HB573
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.215 to require members of the workers' compensation board to have at least 8 years of experience in the practice, administration, or adjudication of workers' compensation law, and to be subject to the same standards of conduct as appeals court judges; amend 342.230 to require administrative law judges to have 5 years of experience in the practice of workers' compensation law; and amend 342. 213 to conform. HB572
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - To Labor & Industry (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.265 to require, upon request of the employee, lump-sum payment of income benefits for an award or agreement with a present value of $25,000 or less. HB534
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text Amend 342.340 to require an insurance carrier to provide notice to a certificate holder, beneficiary, or any individual provided proof of insurance, if a workers' compensation insurance policy has lapsed, expired, or has been canceled, terminated, or not renewed. HB498
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 342 to adopt the fifth edition of the American Medical Association (AMA) "Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment." HB334
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 31) Bill Text Amend KRS 304.9-350 to prohibit an individual or business entity licensed as a consultant, or agent or an agency with whom the consultant has a financial or business ownership interest or affiliation, from contracting, selling, or negotiating insurance for the risk of the client who is subject to the consulting contract during the term of the contract or within twelve months of the termination of the contract; permit consulting fees paid to a consultant to be shared between a business entity licensed as a consultant and an individual who is licensed as a consultant and is an owner, officer, partner, member, or employee of the business entity; require a person licensed as a consultant to disclose in a written contract signed by the party to be charged prior to the provision of consultant services the services to be provided, the beginning and ending date of the agreement, any insurance policy to which the agreement for consultant's services applies, the arrangement for compensation of the [...] show full description SR40
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 34-0-2 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of James L. Kerr as an administrative law judge in the Office of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR41
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 35-0-1 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of Sheila C. Lowther as an administrative law judge in the Office of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR34
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 35-0-1 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of Grant Stewart Roark as an administrative law judge in the Office of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR46
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 35-0-1 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of Lawrence F. Smith as an administrative law judge in the Office of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR29
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 35-0-1 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of Marcel Smith as an administrative law judge in the Office of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR38
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 35-0-1 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of R. Scott Borders as an administrative law judge in the Office of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR44
Latest Action: 02/06/2008 - 3rd reading, adopted 34-0-(1-abstention) Bill Text Confirm the appointment of Franklin A. Stivers to the Workers' Compensation Board for a term expiring January 4, 2011. SR28
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 35-0-1 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of William Bruce Cowden, Jr. to the Workers' Compensation Board for a term expiring January 4, 2012. SR35
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 35-0-1 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of Marc Christopher Davis as an administrative law judge in the Office of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2011. SR39
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Adopted 35-0-1 Bill Text Confirm the reappointment of Howard E. Frasier, Jr. as an administrative law judge in the Office of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2011. HB273
Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 342.122 to eliminate the allocation of 19 million dollars each year from coal severance tax receipts to the reserve fund of the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Funding Commission; amend KRS 42.4582, 42.4585, 164.7891, and 164.7901 to conform; repeal KRS 48.112. |
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