The Kansas legislature is making headway on a change to that state's workers' compensation system that would increase the application of apportionment, thereby limiting the payout to injured workers for subsequent, aggravating injuries. On Thursday, the Special Committee on Commerce and Labor convened to take testimony on the state of the system, and begin a review of a proposal to that would limit benefits paid to an employee who re-aggravated a pre-existing injury while on the job. Another current legislative proposal would eliminate workers' compensation liability to injured employees who w...
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