SB317: Revises provisions relating to industrial insurance. (BDR 53-625)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; revising certain requirements for an insurer or third-party administrator to maintain a physical office in this State; revising the circumstances under which the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry may conduct certain inspections; revising provisions relating to the administration of certain claims; revising provisions relating to the calculation of certain premium costs; revising provisions relating to certain administrators; revising provisions relating to certain audits; revising provisions relating to certain subsequent injury accounts; authorizing the Administrator to adopt regulations relating to physician assistants; requiring the Administrator to adopt a certain formulary; revising provisions relating to an insurer's list of certain physicians and chiropractic physicians; establishing and revising various requirements for certain hearings relating to industrial insurance claims; revising provisions governing an injury or disease that is caused by stress; revising provisions governing motions to stay certain decisions and petitions for judicial review; revising requirements for payments for a period of temporary partial disability; revising the circumstances under which the Administrator may impose certain administrative fines; repealing provisions governing certain appeals and certain determinations of a percentage of disability ;and providing other matters properly relating thereto.