House Labor Committee Endorses Measures to Produce Comp System Reports

The Hawaii House Committee on Labor and Public Employment has recommended that the chamber pass two measures that would produce reports on issues affecting the workers' compensation system.  House Concurrent Resolution 167 orders the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to prepare a report detailing how it would raise reimbursement rates to providers. In testimony for another bill this session, the department said it "favors an increase in the reimbursement rate ... and is considering other alternatives to the fee schedule." House Concurrent Resolution 168...