A workers' compensation measure passed this week by the Hawaii Legislature over a gubernatorial veto softens doctors' medical treatment guidelines for injured workers, according to an insurance trade group representative.
Governor Linda Lingle's veto of SB 1808 was overridden in a special session Tuesday. The measure will alter the State Department of Labor's newly adopted workers' comp regulations.
Samuel Sorich, a representative of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, said that the PCI saw the original regulations as "a good guidance and framework for determining the appropriateness of medical treatments."
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