Alabama Won't Raise Benefits After Court Ruling, But Georgia Looks Likely

Perhaps heeding the warning signs posted next door in Alabama, the Georgia Senate wasted little time this year in passing a bill that would raise the maximum weekly wage benefit for temporary total and partial disability. Even some business groups supported Senate Bill 135, which the Senate voted 51-0 to pass earlier in March. It was a Republican Senator who sponsored the bill, no less. The House Industry and Labor Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the bill today. If approved by the House and signed by the governor, the measure would mark the first time in three years that temp...