Connecticut Workers Could Get Additional Workers' Comp Payments

Connecticut is one of several states weighing workers' compensation reform.

S.B. 255, now undergoing review by the Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis, would permit workers' compensation commissioners to award additional benefits to compensate an injured worker for loss of wages under the appropriate circumstances.

Here's an excerpt from the proposed legislation:

In addition to the compensation benefits provided � for specific loss of a member or use of the function of a member of the body, or any personal injury covered by this chapter, the commissioner � may award additional compensation benefits for such partial permanent disability equal to 75 percent of the difference between the wages currently earned by an employee in a position comparable to the position held by such injured employee prior to his injury, after such wages have been reduced by any deduction for federal or state taxes, or both, and for the federal Insurance Contributions Act�