A committee of House and Senate leaders is recommending final passage of a bill that would allow claimants to bring a chaperone to medical examinations by an employer’s physician and make recordings of the exam, with the physician’s permission.
Labor groups urged passage of Senate Bill 859 by Gilbert Keith-Agaran, D-Maui, saying that a chaperone and recordings will improve claimants’ negative perceptions about the state’s adversarial workers’ comp system and provide greater assurances that examinations will be conducted fairly.
The Senate passed S...
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