12/21/2005
An advocate for New York injured workers has denounced Gov. George Pataki's workers' compensation reform proposal as corporate welfare that will cost the taxpayers.
Mary M. Jeffords of Injured Workers of New York warned in a letter published this week in the Buffalo News that the provision in
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03/30/2011
On the same day the Montana Senate passed workers compensation reform legislation predicted to save 100 million it also voted in favor of an amended appropriations bill that would tap into those savings to fund the states community college system according to a report by the CBS affiliate in
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04/30/2013
Lawmakers in Washington state for the fourth straight year are going to need overtime to pass a budget and as predicted workers compensation reform is going to be part of the negotiations.
The Republican-controlled Majority Coalition Caucus in the Washington Senate passed a package of bills
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08/26/2005
agents.
IBA West CEO Clark Payan said We believe the membership will be pleased with our results" adding "but you judge for yourself and let us know."
The report leads off with a report about California workers' compensation reform which Gov. Schwarzenegger pledged as part of his gubernatorial
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01/13/2006
Gov. Mark Sanford stood with business leaders Thursday in Greenville and Charleston S.C. to push for passage of comprehensive workers' compensation reform in the legislative session.
"South Carolina's businesses and especially our small businesses simply cannot sustain the current trend of
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05/10/2004
With work comp reform sweeping the nation as the trend-de-jeur Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry on Friday announced that he was forming a new 15-member working group to study reformation of the state's workers' compensation system.
The group of lawyers lawmakers insurance industry representatives
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10/27/2005
workers' compensation industry based upon the hypothesis that the reform movement in California was the product of a national workers' compensation crisis and that California was not alone in its reform agenda and then prognosticates future trends in the industry.
This course National Trends in
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02/02/2004
Sending the strongest message to the State Legislature to date that the California business community is serious in its quest to reform the state's broken workers' compensation system key business organizations from across the state have joined forces to support a single ballot measure on the
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01/31/2011
expected to quickly appoint special committees to produce the reform legislation.
Meanwhile a workers compensation claimants attorney has suggested the solution to the systems problems may be to simply abolish the Workers Compensation Act.
However it appears that the General Assembly will be
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02/14/2006
major workers' compensation policy debate in Sacramento since 1993 and was one of the most active and trusted advocates for the recent California workers' compensation reform laws" said James Little the chief executive and president of Employers Direct of Agoura Hills Calif.
"This announcement
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