On Monday of this week, Governor Jindal vetoed a bill that allow an injured worker more time to file a workers comp claim. This bill would allow injured workers to continue trying to work instead of immediately filing a claim when they are injured at work. This veto is basically telling anyone with a work injury to file a claim immediately, and get their doctor to take them off of work. Because if you do not, you will loose your claim forever.
As I mentioned in an earlier blog, the Property Casualty Insurers Association (PCI) was against this bill from the beginning and sent a letter to Governor Jindal to urge him to veto the bill. Obviously, it worked. PCI’s reasoning was that the bill would increase claims. They did not take into account the fact that some workers get injured at work and work through the injury, never having to file a workers comp claim at all.
Just wait until PCI sees what they have done now.
Richard J. Arsenault, 2011
