Labor and Employment – Workers’ Compensation Claims – Fees for Legal Services
What this bill does
Authorizing the Workers' Compensation Commission, if there is no compensation other than a medical benefit payable to a covered employee, to order that a fee of not more than $2,000 for legal services rendered on behalf of the covered employee be payable by the covered employee, an employer or its insurer, a self-insured employer, or the Uninsured Employers' Fund; exempting a certain fee for legal services from a certain provision of law providing that a fee ordered by the Commission is a lien on compensation awarded; etc.
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