CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 18

HB 1384 - FINAL VERSION

AN ACT making certain technical changes to the workers' compensation law.

SPONSORS: Rep. Gilman, Graf 1

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

AN ACT making certain technical changes to the workers' compensation law.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

18:1 Workers' Compensation; Average Weekly Wages; Reference Change. Amend RSA 281-A:15, III to read as follows:

III. Where the employee is employed as of the date of injury concurrently by 2 or more employers subject to this chapter and is disabled from any such employment, "average weekly wages" shall be computed on the basis of the weekly wages received by the employee from all such employers at the time of the injury. Notwithstanding paragraph II, if the computation of average weekly wage under this paragraph is more favorable to the injured employee, he shall be entitled to such amount. The employer in whose employment the employee was injured shall be liable in the first instance for payment of all benefits. Any additional compensation resulting from the increase in average weekly wages due to the employee's concurrent employment shall be reimbursed by the special fund created under RSA 281-A:55. The employer in whose employment the employee was injured shall be liable for all payments under RSA 281-A:[24] 23 and 25.

18:2 Workers' Compensation; Vocational Rehabilitation; Reference Change. Amend RSA 281-A:25, VI to read as follows:

VI. To carry out the provisions of [~~RSA 281-A:24 and 25~~] this section, there is hereby created within the workers' compensation division a staff of vocational and physical rehabilitation personnel whose positions shall be classified under RSA 21-I:42 et seq.