Lawmakers to Launch Effort to Draft Standards on Opioid Abuse

By Bill Kidd, Central Bureau ChiefAn association of state lawmakers are preparing to take over the job of drafting model legislation to curb opioid abuse in workers' compensation − a task which the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions abandoned earlier this month.Tennessee Rep. Charles Curtiss, D-Sparata, the president of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators, told WorkCompCentral on Tuesday that NCOIL's Workers' Compensation Insurance Committee will hold a special meeting with the Workers’ Health, Long-Term Care and Health ...