3.0.0 669 2022-02-03T06:01:55Z 2022-02-03T06:01:55Z Senate S S 2011-03-29 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-03-29T20:01:19Z 2011-03-29 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2011-03-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress I000055 Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA] Johnny Isakson R GA N Labor and Employment Disability and paralysis Employee benefits and pensions Federal preemption Health personnel Marine and inland water transportation Transportation employees Worker safety and health Labor and Employment 00 2011-03-29 Introduced in Senate 2011-05-16T21:20:22Z Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2011 - Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to declare that it is the intent of Congress that: (1) in a claim brought under such Act, the facts are not to be given a broad liberal construction in favor of the employee or of the employer; (2) the laws pertaining to the claim are to be construed in accordance with the basic principles of statutory construction and not liberally in favor of either the employee or employer; and (3) the system established under the Act shall be efficient and self-executing, but not an economic or administrative burden.

Makes compensation under the Act payable regardless of fault as a cause of an injury (no-fault).

Specifies requirements for proportional payment of compensation, the last employer doctrine, intervening employment, and noncontributing employment exposure.

Prescribes criteria for the preemption of state law providing additional or alternative remedies for an injured employee, the employee's legal representative, spouse, next of kin, or anyone otherwise entitled to recover from an employer on account of an employee's injury or death.

Revises requirements for physician selection. Allows a carrier to designate one or more participating networks or one or more health care panels, or both, to provide medical services to employees.

Modifies the formula used to determine disability compensation, including for loss of hearing.

Increases allowed funeral expenses.

Revises requirements for: (1) determination of death compensation to survivors; (2) timing and recipients of a notice of such injury or death; (3) filing of claims; (4) date of payment of compensation; (5) assignment and exemption from the claims of creditors; (6) presumptions, burdens, and rules of evidence; (7) review of compensation orders; (8) modification of compensation awards for fraud or overpayment; (9) reports of fraud; and (10) payments into the special fund in the absence of an entitled survivor of an employee.

]]> Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2011 Short Titles as Introduced Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2011 Display Title Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to improve the compensation system, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2011-03-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s669is/xml/BILLS-112s669is.xml 2011-03-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.