TNSIA has prepared several bills for introduction in the Legislature on issues of importance to stakeholders of our organization.
The Tennessee Self-Insurers’ Association has prepared several bills for introduction in the Legislature on issues of importance to stakeholders of our organization. We are working with the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry to try and get these bills passed.
Please note House Bill 2129, sponsored by Rep. Fitzhugh, which is also Senate Bill 1797, sponsored by Sen. Southerland, is a bill that we are pushing hard. The bill is in two parts.
• Part I of the bill allows employers and employees to agree to cut off future medical if they can get the Department of Labor or the court to agree to allow them to do that. Under the 2004 Reform Act, closing medicals is basically prohibited.
• Part II of the bill attempts to define a repetitive injury and puts the burden on the employee to prove by clear and convincing evidence that an injury is due to a repetitive motion. It also defines a repetitive injury to mean an injury “directly and solely caused by repetitive use of the affected body part, as established by competent ergonomic and medical evidence, and which is not the result or natural consequence of the aging process or a congenital or developmental disorder.”
Please contact your senator and representative and enlist any lobbyist that you might employ to help us push this bill through the Legislature.
Attached are pdf copies of House Bill 2129 and Senate Bill 1797. To monitor their progress visit http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/.
House Bill 2129 pdf
Senate Bill 1797 pdf
Posted: February 21st, 2007 under Legislation.
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