Bill Filed to Reduce Benefits for Workers Intoxicated at Time of Injury

Workers' compensation indemnity benefits payable to injured workers would be reduced in proportion to the degree that drug or alcohol intoxication contributed to the accident under a bipartisan bill filed in the New Mexico House of Representatives. Benefits would be reduced by a minimum of 35% and no more than 85% when drug or alcohol use contributed to a workplace injury under House Bill 238, co-sponsored by Rep. Dennis J. Roch, R-Logan, and Sen. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces. An injured worker who refuses to submit to a drug and alcohol screening following a workplace accident woul...