Colo. Bill Denying Workers’ Comp to Illegal Immigrants Dies in Committee

February 10, 2006

A Colorado proposal to deny workers’ compensation benefits to illegal immigrants injured on their jobs has died in a Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee.

Republican Sen. Greg Brophy’s bill 98 would have barred any “unauthorized alien” from receiving workers’ comp benefits for permanent partial disabilities, medical impairments, permanent total disabilities, and wage losses during temporary disabilities for work-related injuries.

Brophy said now employers could be liable for paying for injured illegal immigrant workers’ health and medical care, even if those workers are no longer covered by the employer’s workers’ comp insurance.

Topics Workers' Compensation

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  • February 11, 2006 at 12:39 pm
    Who pays their birthing costs? says:
    You might want to do a little more checking. They obtain those benefits by claiming children that belong to others in their same household, 10-15 people in one household but w... read more
  • February 10, 2006 at 6:14 am
    Gigi says:
    Why ,if we all benefit from this illegal working force still we are so blind to accept it.We need them and they aren\'t asking for food stamps and unemployment benefits.
  • February 10, 2006 at 2:44 am
    JT, head out of the sand pls says:
    Since you seem to think this is policitally motivated, aren\'t the Dems are usually the ones that want the most for free because they thinks the guvment owes them?

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