DWC Posts Rules on Continuing PPD

Fifteen years from now, when injured Kentucky workers receive notice that their medical benefits are about to expire but that they can ask for an extension, they can thank a group of advisers and regulators who spent six months in 2018 devising the notification and appeal process. The termination of medical benefits for permanent partial disability after 15 years instead of lifetime benefits was one of the most debated changes required by House Bill 2, the extensive reform measure that passed the legislature last spring. The legislature left it up to the Department of Workers&r...