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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7141
January Session, 2025
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Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING COMPENSATION PAID TO INJURED
EMPLOYEES AND THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF A DECEASED
EMPLOYEE UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 31-308 of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2
2025): 3
(b) With respect to the following injuries, the compensation, in 4
addition to the usual compensation for total incapacity but in lieu of all 5
other payments for compensation, shall be seventy-five per cent of the 6
average weekly earnings of the injured employee, calculated pursuant 7
to section 31-310, after such earnings have been reduced by any 8
deduction for federal or state taxes, or both, and for the federal 9
Insurance Contributions Act made from such employee's total wages 10
received during the period of calculation of the employee's average 11
weekly wage pursuant to said section 31-310, but in no case more than 12
one hundred per cent, raised to the next even dollar, of the average 13
weekly earnings of production and related workers in manufacturing in 14
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the state, as determined in accordance with the provisions of section 31-15
309, or less than fifty dollars weekly. All of the following injuries include 16
the loss of the member or organ and the complete and permanent loss 17
of use of the member or organ referred to: 18
T1 MEMBER INJURY WEEKS OF
T2 COMPENSATION
T3 Arm
T4 Master arm Loss at or above elbow 208
T5 Other arm Loss at or above elbow 194
T6 Hand
T7 Master hand Loss at or above wrist 168
T8 Other hand Loss at or above wrist 155
T9 One leg Loss at or above knee 155
T10 One foot Loss at or above ankle 125
T11 Hearing
T12 Both ears 104
T13 One ear 35
T14 One eye
T15 Complete and permanent
T16 loss of sight in, or
T17 reduction of sight to
T18 one-tenth or less
T19 of normal vision 157
T20 Thumb*
T21 On master hand 63
T22 On other hand 54
T23 Fingers**
T24 First finger 36
T25 Second finger 29
T26 Third finger 21
T27 Fourth finger 17
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T28 Toes***
T29 Great toe 28
T30 Other toes 9
T31 Back Number of weeks
T32 which the
T33 proportion of
T34 incapacity
T35 represents to a
T36 maximum of 374
T37 weeks
T38 Heart 520
T39 Brain 520
T40 Carotid artery 520
T41 Pancreas 416
T42 Liver 347
T43 Stomach 260
T44 Loss of bladder 233
T45 Speech 163
T46 Lung 117
T47 Cervical spine [117] 208
T48 Kidney 117
T49 Rib cage Bilateral 69
T50 Ovary 35
T51 Testis 35
T52 Mammary 35
T53 Nose Sense and respiratory 35
T54 function
T55 Jaw Mastication 35
T56 Uterus 35-104
T57 Vagina 35-104
T58 Penis 35-104
T59 Coccyx Actual removal 35
T60 Sense of smell 17
T61 Sense of taste 17
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T62 Spleen In addition to scar 13
T63 Gall bladder 13
T64 Tooth Minimum 1
T65 Loss of drainage duct of eye
T66 (If corrected by prosthesis) 17 for each
T67 Loss of drainage duct of eye
T68 (If uncorrected by prosthesis) 33 for each
T69 Pelvis percentage of back
*The loss or loss of use of one phalanx of a thumb shall be construed 19
as seventy-five per cent of the loss of the thumb. 20
**The loss or loss of use of one phalanx of a finger shall be construed 21
as fifty per cent of the loss of the finger. The loss of or loss of use of two 22
phalanges of a finger shall be construed as ninety per cent of the loss of 23
the finger. 24
***The loss or loss of use of one phalanx of a great toe shall be 25
construed as sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the loss of the great toe. 26
The loss of the greater part of any phalanx shall be construed as the loss 27
of a phalanx and shall be compensated accordingly. 28
If the injury consists of the loss of a substantial part of a member 29
resulting in a permanent partial loss of the use of a member, or if the 30
injury results in a permanent partial loss of function, the administrative 31
law judge may, in the administrative law judge's discretion, in lieu of 32
other compensation, award to the injured employee the proportion of 33
the sum provided in this subsection for the total loss of, or the loss of the 34
use of, the member or for incapacity or both that represents the 35
proportion of total loss or loss of use found to exist, and any voluntary 36
agreement submitted in which the basis of settlement is such 37
proportionate payment may, if otherwise conformable to the provisions 38
of this chapter, be approved by the administrative law judge in the 39
administrative law judge's discretion. Notwithstanding the provisions 40
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of this subsection, the complete loss or loss of use of an organ which 41
results in the death of an employee shall be compensable pursuant only 42
to section 31-306. 43
Sec. 2. Subdivision (6) of subsection (a) of section 31-306 of the general 44
statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof 45
(Effective July 1, 2025): 46
(6) In all cases where there are no presumptive dependents, but 47
where there are (A) one or more persons wholly dependent in fact, the 48
compensation in case of death shall be divided according to the relative 49
degree of their dependence, or (B) next of kin of the deceased employee, 50
the compensation shall be divided equally among the next of kin of the 51
deceased employee. Compensation payable under this subdivision shall 52
be paid for not more than three hundred and twelve weeks from the 53
date of the death of the employee. The compensation, if paid to those 54
wholly dependent in fact, shall be paid at the full compensation rate. 55
The compensation, if paid to those partially dependent in fact upon the 56
deceased employee as of the date of the injury, shall not, in total, be more 57
than the full compensation rate nor less than twenty dollars weekly, nor, 58
if the average weekly sum contributed by the deceased at the date of the 59
injury to those partially dependent in fact is more than twenty dollars 60
weekly, not more than the sum so contributed. 61
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 31-308(b)
Sec. 2 July 1, 2025 31-306(a)(6)
Statement of Purpose:
To: (1) Provide supplemental payments and benefits to individuals with
partial permanent disabilities, and (2) permit compensation awards to
be distributed to the next of kin of a deceased employee who was
unmarried and without dependent children at the time of the
employee's death.
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