House Likely to Pass Benefit Increase Bill, Senate Approval Uncertain

New Hampshire’s House of Representatives is on the cusp of approving a bill that would boost workers’ compensation benefits by 11% starting in January 2015.That change, which still needs approval of the Republican-controlled Senate to be passed into law, could increase employers’ insurance rates by up to 4%.This is the latest of a cluster of workers’ compensation bills that have threaded through the New Hampshire Legislature during the past 12 months. Last year, the House and Senate agreed on four of them and made them law. But four or five other workers’ compensa...