By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe South Carolina Legislature is scheduled to debate bills that would prevent workers covered by the federal Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act or the Jones Act from filing state workers' compensation claims and would ease the restrictions on "mental-mental" claims.House Labor, Commerce and Industry Chairman William Sandifer III, R-Seneca, filed House Bill 3369 on Jan. 17 at the request of South Carolina coastal businesses. The businesses are complaining they are required to pay both state workers' compensation premiums and prem...
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