Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1716

Modifying certain workers compensation provisions, adopting recommendations of
the workers compensation advisory council; modifying the definition of employee
relating to voluntary uncompensated workers; excluding employees hired by North
Dakota employers resulting from temporary work in Minnesota from coverage,
defining temporary work; eliminating the requirement for insurers and self
insured employers to file annual statements with the commissioner of labor and
industry detailing the total amount of legal fees and costs incurred during the
year; making the presumption of parent as guardian specific to minor employees;
requiring the deposit of certain penalties in the assigned risk safety account
in lieu of the special compensation fund; granting the commissioner jurisdiction
to hold administrative conferences and issue decisions and orders in
rehabilitation disputes involving treatment and medical fees; modifying the
definitions of paid indemnity losses and standard workers compensation premium
for special compensation fund purposes and certain requirements for payments to
the fund, authorizing the commissioner to allow offset of certain reimbursements
due employers or insurers; authorizing employers to designate pharmacies or
pharmacy networks for required use by employees to obtain outpatient
medications, restriction, authorizing contracts; authorizing electronic
submission of health care provider bills; expanding certain collective
bargaining agreement validity recognition requirements; modifying certain policy
cancellation, termination or nonrenewal notice requirements; specifying the
liability of employers for payment of compensable workers compensation claims
upon insurer insolvency and certain related notice requirements of the insurance
guaranty association, requiring payment by the association under certain
employer failure to pay conditions or a commissioner of commerce requirement for
employer contracts with licensed third party administrators, requiring employer
reports and assessment payments to and providing for employer requests for
supplementary benefits and second injury reimbursement from the special
compensation fund under certain conditions; eliminating the requirement for the
first report of injury form to include a certain declaration relating to
employer compensation payment and the requirement for the commissioner of labor
and industry to establish a list of neutral physicians or surgeons for
appointment purposes
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