The Louisiana legislature recently passed a bill that changed the time limit for for filing a Louisiana Workers Compensation claim based upon a developmental injury from two years to three years.
The law currently says:
"When the injury does not result at the time of or develop immediately after the accident, the [time] limitation [for filing a claim] shall not take effect until expiration of one year from the time the injury develops but in all such cases the claim for payment shall be forever barred unless the proceedings have been begun within two years from the date of the accident."
The new law would have changed the time limitation from two years to three years.
Governor Jindal's office announced today that he has vetoed the bill, because a group of Louisiana Workers Compensation insurance companies asked him to. As his letter issuing the veto states:
"I have received a request to veto this legislation from the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation, the Louisiana Association of Self-Insured Employers, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Louisiana Restaurant Association Self Insurer’s Fund, and LUBA Workers’ Compensation."
Read the full text of the letter here.
