(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Assembly Bill No. 345–Assemblymen Goldwater, Parks, Oceguera, Buckley, Manendo, Gibbons, Giunchigliani and Leslie

 

March 13, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Requires insurer to submit written report concerning claims for compensation for certain occupational diseases to administrator of division of industrial relations of department of business and industry. (BDR 53‑1267)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: Yes.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring an insurer to submit a written report concerning certain claims for compensation to the administrator of the division of industrial relations of the department of business and industry; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. Chapter 617 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a

1-2  new section to read as follows:

1-3    1.  Each insurer shall submit to the administrator a written report

1-4  concerning each claim for compensation that is filed with the insurer for

1-5  an occupational disease of the heart or lungs or any occupational disease

1-6  that is infectious or relates to cancer. The written report must be

1-7  submitted to the administrator within 30 days after the insurer accepts or

1-8  denies the claim pursuant to NRS 617.356 and must include:

1-9    (a) A statement specifying the nature of the claim;

1-10    (b) A statement indicating whether the insurer accepted or denied the

1-11  claim and the reasons for the acceptance or denial;

1-12    (c) A statement indicating the estimated medical costs for the claim;

1-13  and

1-14    (d) Any other information required by the administrator.

1-15    2.  If a claim specified in subsection 1 is appealed or affirmed,

1-16  modified or reversed on appeal, or is closed or reopened, the insurer

1-17  shall notify the administrator of that fact in writing within 30 days after

1-18  the claim is appealed, affirmed, modified, reversed, closed or reopened.

2-1    3.  On or before February 1 of each year, the administrator shall

2-2  prepare and make available to the general public a written report

2-3  concerning claims specified in subsection 1. The written report must

2-4  include:

2-5    (a) The information submitted to the administrator by an insurer

2-6  pursuant to this section during the immediately preceding year; and

2-7    (b) Any other information concerning those claims required by the

2-8  administrator.

2-9    Sec. 2.  The provisions of section 1 of this act do not apply to a claim

2-10  for compensation specified in that section that is filed with an insurer

2-11  before January 1, 2001.

2-12    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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