Archive: Workers' Compensation

  • Workers’ Compensation as Exclusive Remedy Resolution March 15, 2013

    Workers’ Compensation as Exclusive Remedy Resolution Summary ALEC’s Workers’ Compensation as Exclusive Remedy Resolution reasserts the traditional no-fault principle upon which the system is based. Model Resolution {Title} WHEREAS, since the early 1900s every state has adopted some type of [...]

  • The Employer Standing Act March 15, 2013

    The Employer Standing Act Summary The Employer Standing Act gives employers legal standing before the appropriate board or commission to dispose of a workers’ compensation claim fraudulently filed by an employee. Model Legislation Section 1. {Short Title} The Employer Standing [...]

  • Workplace Drug Testing Act March 15, 2013

    Workplace Drug Testing Act Summary ALEC’s model Workplace Drug Testing Act provides that an employer may test for drugs and alcohol in accordance with provisions in the Act, and establishes testing standards and procedures, and protections for the employee and [...]

  • Workers’ Compensation Medical Records Disclosure Act March 15, 2013

    Workers’ Compensation Medical Records Disclosure Act Summary Current legislative proposals to protect the privacy of individually identifiable financial and medical information severely restrict, or do not sufficiently address, the rights of employers in workers’ compensation, and other employee entitlement, claim [...]

  • Workers’ Compensation Fraud Warning Act March 15, 2013

    Workers’ Compensation Fraud Warning Act Summary The Workers’ Compensation Fraud Warning Act authorizes an insurer or self-insured employer to provide notice to an injured worker on or with a check for temporary disability benefits that it is unlawful to make [...]