Working Group Finalizes Recommendations for Legislature

A working group convened to identify ways to improve Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system will recommend lawmakers take steps to control prices for compound drugs and increase injured workers’ access to medical care, in a final report to be delivered to the state Legislature next week. The working group also agreed to ask lawmakers to add two more facilitators within the Disability Compensation Division to help users navigate the system, and to ask for about $515,000 to begin the transition to electronic filing. Lawmakers in 2015 ordered the Department of Labor and Ind...