The Indiana Senate unanimously passed a bill authored by State Rep. Chuck Moseley, D-Portage, to improve the care provided to employees getting treatment through worker’s compensation.

H.B. 1116 would prohibit an employer or employer’s insurance carrier from delaying emergency medical treatment for worker’s compensation injuries or occupational disease disablements.

“Think of how much permanent disability could be avoided by allowing quick and efficient care of workers,” Moseley said in a press release. “Improving the worker’s compensation system could not only improve the treatment received by a worker after an accident but could save the state and taxpayers millions by decreasing the amount of permanent disability in this state.”

The bill now returns to the Indiana House for Moseley to concur with the amendments made in the Senate.

Posted 2/24/2010