The Legislature is "at Work"

Your House Speaker has put "top men" to work on issues that he thinks will come up in the next legislative session. Here is what they are working on:

1. The House Business and Industry Committee and the Insurance Committee have been given a joint charge to study the impact of the Entergy v. Summers decision on the worker's compensation systems as a whole. This broad charge should give the committees leeway to consider issues such as the level of worker's comp benefits,contractual issues between owners, general contractors, and subcontractors and the scope of the comp bar.

2. The House Civil Practices Committee is charged with studying the impact of HB 4, with particular emphasis on job creation, judicial efficiency, medical access, and medical liability insurance rates; the effect on the tort system of "meritless" litigation and whether additional sanctions are needed to discourage such litigation; the effect of multiple plaintiff litigation other than asbestos / silica litigation; and whether liability protections for health care providers in emergency or charitable care situations are "adequate".

We should, I suppose, be encouraged by the "charge" given by the Speaker to his minions.