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January, 1985, Vol. 108, No.
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Workers' compensation: 1984 State enactments
LaVerne C. TinsleySignificant amendments to State workers' compensation laws were relatively few (136) in 1984, although 44 legislatures convened and numerous proposals were introduced.1
Most of the revisions affecting injured workers and their families related to benefits and coverage. For instance, Mississippi enacted legislation which provides for a three-step increase in maximum weekly benefits and total maximum benefits for disability and death. Nearly one-third of the States raised the allowance for burial expenses.
Several other laws raised the percentage of the State average weekly wage used in computing maximum weekly compensation for disability and death. In Illinois, the percentage of the employee's wages which is used to determine compensation for permanent partial disability and for certain cases of serious and permanent disfigurement, was reduced from 66 percent to 60 percent. Alaska changed its former method of using of 66 percent of the employee's average weekly wages for disability and death to using 80 percent of the employee's spendable weekly wages.
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1 The legislatures did not meet in Arkansas, New Hampshire, or North Dakota. Special sessions were held in Nevada and Oregon, but no significant legislation was enacted in the fields covered by this article. Information on Guam had not been received in time to include in this article, which is based on information received by November 9, 1984.
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