I would expect further litigation in connection with the amendments to WCL §25-a with respect to its retroactive application once the amendment becomes effective on January 1, 2014. Given the language in the statute permitting an application for WCL-25-a relief to be filed for those claims which are ripe for adjudication of the issue prior to the effective date of the amendment, the legislature may have solved the retroactivity problem which was adjudicated in the decision of the Matter of Mills v.