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Senate Bill 258 was signed in May 2025. According to
the bill itself:
This bill provides that the maximum
amount that the industrial insurer or Administrator may recover for such a lien
must be the lesser of: (1) the amount of the lien, minus an amount equal to
one-half of the reasonable costs incurred by the injured employee or the
dependents of the employee in procuring the recovery; or (2) one-third of the
total amount of any recovery, inclusive of any attorney’s fees or costs and the
monetary value of any other property which is recovered, minus an amount equal
to one-half of the reasonable costs incurred by the injured employee or the
dependents of the employee in procuring the recovery. This bill requires an
itemized memorandum of any such reasonable costs incurred by the injured
employee or the dependents of the employee in procuring the recovery to be
verified by the injured employee, the dependents of the employee or the
attorney or representative of the injured employee or the dependents of the
employee, provided to the industrial insurer or Administrator and subject to
judicial review under certain circumstances. This bill also limits any offset
to the amount of future compensation received by the injured employee or
dependents of the employee to: (1) an offset against payments of compensation
that are not accident benefits; and (2) a reduction in each such payment which
does not exceed one-third of the amount of the payment until the total amount
of all such reductions equals the net amount recovered by the injured employee
or dependents of the employee.
Senate Bill 317 was signed in July 2025. According to
the bill itself, it is:
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.