The Illinois General Assembly sent the governor a recently amended bill including provisions that would increase surcharges by 8% and charge the state attorney general with collecting unpaid penalties for failure to carry comp coverage.
The last-minute amendments to Senate Bill 1996, which was delivered to Gov. J.B. Pritzker Tuesday, would also make it a felony to present a phony certificate of coverage and allow transfers between the Self-Insurers Security Fund and the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission Operations Fund.
SB 1996 would increase the annual surcharge that fina...
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