Governor Signs Bill on E-Filing of Job Injury Data

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has signed House Bill 931 by Rep. Stuart Bishop, R-Lafayette, passed by the House, which would require an electronic data interchange (EDI) format for reporting job-injury data.Current law requires that within 10 days of an injury resulting in lost time in excess of one week or death, an employer shall send a report to the workers’ compensation carrier with the name, address and business of the employer; information on the employee, including the name, Social Security number, address, telephone number, and occupation of the employee; the date, time, locati...