Working Group to Resume Meeting in November

A working group that convened to strengthen Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system will resume meeting in November to discuss ways to improve vocational rehabilitation programs available to injured workers. Lawmakers in 2015 ordered the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene a working group to “streamline” the state’s work comp processes. The group met six times in 2016 and developed recommendations including allowing advanced practice registered nurses to serve as physicians and treat injured workers, and filling staff positions in the ...