The New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration extended the period to comment on proposed rules to implement a bill allowing judges to reduce benefits owed to injured workers who were intoxicated at the time of injury, after revising the regulations it proposed in March.
The updated rules say the proposed thresholds for drug metabolites and blood-alcohol concentration establish a “rebuttable presumption of intoxication or influence.” Rules proposed in March said workers showing the presence of drugs in concentrations higher than the proposed thresholds could be sue...
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