04/07/2011
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System stakeholders were still assessing Wednesday whether the proposal by Rep. John Bradley D-Marion is intended as a true nuclear option or as political theater.
Bradley one of the co-chairmen of last year's special House of Representatives committee on workers' compensation reform helped direct
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03/05/2007
announced an agreement had been reached for a workers' compensation reform bill that would raise the maximum weekly benefit for the first time since 1992 abolish the state's rate board and phase out the Second Injury Fund.
Spitzer also called for creation of task forces to review various issues
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06/27/2008
Compensation Appeals Board decision to deny a petition for reconsideration in Benson v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board No. A120462.
In Benson the Workers Compensation Appeals Board ruled in a 4-1 decision that the Senate Bill 899 reform measure required it to determine and apportion the cause of
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04/16/2004
California Senator Chuck Poochigian R-Fresno whose SB 899 was chosen as the vehicle for 2004 workers' compensation reform has issued the following press release
2004 Workers' Compensation Package Provides Comprehensive Reform
SB 899 Inserts Common Sense Into Our Dysfunctional System
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07/13/2007
affected directly by hurricanes.
But he told WorkCompCentral that the workers' compensation situation in Texas is "not that bad right now like most of the rest of the country."
Texas like California and Florida has benefited from recent reform efforts Hartwig said.
However he noted "in
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12/07/2007
American Insurance Association to eliminate or modify a requirement in the reform bill A 6163 that insurers deposit money to cover lump-sum settlements of workers compensation claims later negotiated by the ATF.
A memo issued by ATF officials says insurers will be required to deposit money to cover
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04/18/2005
New York state Sen. Dave Valesky said that the state's first on-time budget in 20 years will give the legislature more time to address workers' compensation reform this year.
In a guest column that appeared in The Citizen newspaper of Auburn N.Y. Valesky D-Onieda said workers' comp reform
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08/12/2004
supported the private sectors'
efforts to reform the workers' compensation system but the majority party ignored the
business community's concerns.
Unless we reform the system the rising costs of workers' compensation will
impede our State's economic growth. Small businesses will continue to see their
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04/21/2004
Now that the rest of the nation has seen how California gets workers' compensation reform interests in other states have bumped up their efforts to get new controls into their system.
This week Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle's administration rebuffed earlier in the year by a sound defeat in the
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09/07/2012
A proposal for reform of the Tennessee workers' compensation system will go to a state cabinet-level steering committee for review today and to Gov. Bill Haslam within the next few weeks the administrator of the state's workers' compensation program said Thursday.
Abbie Hudgens who has
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