SB 562

Abstract

Workers' compensation; time period for filing claim; certain cancers. Provides that the time period for filing a workers' compensation claim for certain cancers is two years after a diagnosis of the disease is first communicated to the employee or within 10 years from the date of the last injurious exposure in employment, whichever first occurs. The bill provides, however, that such claim for benefits shall be barred if an employee is 65 years of age or older, regardless of the date of diagnosis, communication, or last injurious exposure in employment. This bill is identical to HB 1042.

Workers' compensation; time period for filingclaim; certain cancers. Provides that the time period for filinga workers' compensation claim for certain cancers is two years aftera diagnosis of the disease is first communicated to the employeeor within 10 years from the date of the last injurious exposure inemployment, whichever first occurs. Under current law, such timeperiod is two years after a diagnosis of the disease is first communicatedto the employee or within five years from the date of the last injuriousexposure in employment, whichever first occurs.