An insurance trade group's opposition to bills in the Connecticut legislature that would modify certain workers' compensation benefits is based on flawed estimates, a legislator suggested today.

State Rep. Kevin Ryan, D-Montville, who chairs the Labor and Public Employees Committee, made his comments concerning two measures that the American Insurance Association said would “add costs to the private-sector employment and state and municipal budgets, further burdening an already strained economy.”

The bills were voted out of committee on March 8 and sent to floor of the Senate, but Mr. Ryan said before they could move ahead they would have to get a study by the Office of Fiscal Analysis–which, he added, “may reflect a more realistic cost” than that projected by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.

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