Date	Chamber	Action
1/8/2013	House	Session Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

820 ILCS 305/8.7

820 ILCS 305/19

from Ch. 48, par. 138.19

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that claimants shall be notified of the specific reason for a denial to pay medical expenses. Provides that if the specific reason is not given, the claim should not be given the rebuttable presumption that the employer shall not be responsible for payment of additional compensation if that denial or refusal to authorize complies with a utilization review program. Increases daily and total additional compensation allowed when an employer or his or her insurance carrier, without good and just cause, fail, neglect, refuse, or unreasonably delay the payment of medical or compensation benefits due. Effective January 1, 2012.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
1/3/2011	House	Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson
1/12/2011	House	First Reading
1/12/2011	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2/8/2011	House	Assigned to Labor Committee
3/17/2011	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
1/8/2013	House	Session Sine Die

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