Kansas governor signs workers compensation reform bill into law

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Monday signed legislation into law that his office called “the first significant reform to workers compensation laws in our state since 1993.” The governor also said in a statement that H.B. 2134 “represents a well-thought-out compromise between business and labor.”
According to the governor’s office, the new law: Ends payment of unwarranted claims by raising the threshold required for an incident to be compensable, Overturns court decisions that eroded the workers compensation system...