NCCI Releases 2019 Regulatory and Legislative Trends Report

The National Council on Compensation Insurance released its 2019 Regulatory and Legislative Trends report detailing developments affecting workers’ compensation systems throughout the country. NCCI said it tracked about 668 state and federal work comp bills in the first half of the year, including 415 in states where NCCI provides ratemaking services. Benefits for first responders was a hot topic, with 122 bills that would address compensability standards for cancers or other diseases, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Twenty states considered legislation to legalize cannabis for me...