Budget Session Heavy on Comp

New Mexico lawmakers are supposed to focus on budget issues during the short legislative session that ends in less than two weeks, but they're spending a lot of time on workers' compensation. Nine workers' compensation bills were introduced ahead of this year's Feb. 3 deadline aiming to do everything from restore a longstanding exemption to providing comp coverage for agricultural workers that a state court said was unconstitutional to limiting benefits for injured workers who are intoxicated at the time of injury or fired for misconduct after recovering from an occu...