Eight Cases Pending at High Court on Retroactivity of HB 2 Reform

Eight challenges to 2018 reform provisions are now pending before the Kentucky Supreme Court. All of the cases focus on one of the most contentious parts of HB 2, a retroactive provision that terminates permanent disability benefits when a claimant turns 70, or four years after the injury, whichever comes later. The high court may elect to consolidate all of the cases into one. If it decides in favor of the claimant in any or all of them, it could again throw aspects of the Kentucky workers' compensation system into limbo and into another round of lawmaking. But with a Democrat now in t...