01/22/2010
West Virginia's business leaders warned that a little-known amendment to the U.S. Senate's version of health care reform could cost the state's "Old Fund" and carriers in the state's private workers' compensation market up to 200 million from new or expanded claims filed by coal miners with black
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10/29/2009
Attorneys were involved in slightly fewer permanent disability claims in the first two years following enactment of the Senate Bill 899 reform measure in 2004 while PD benefits were delivered faster and claims were closed more quickly the California Workers' Compensation Institute said in a
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10/17/2013
Attendees at the Alaska Chamber of Commerce annual fall convention said rising comp costs can't be sustained and reform will be necessary to control rising medical and legal costs according to a report by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Chuck Brady workers compensation manager for the Arctic
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01/08/2004
particular blaming work comp for the state's business and economic woes.
Jumping on the reform band wagon Pataki told his state that "we must build on our past successes and further reform workers' compensation."
Pataki said that he plans on submitting to the legislature a bill in the next few weeks to
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03/30/2004
Sacramento reporters say that significant movement was made yesterday towards a compromise workers' compensation reform bill that is inclusive of inclusion of the AMA Impairment Guidelines as a basis for reformation of the California permanent disability rating system.
Though legislative leaders
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07/16/2007
A leader in the Oklahoma State Senate said he will work to repair a key component of the state's 2005 workers' compensation reform that was overturned last week by the state Supreme Court.
Sen. James R. Williamson co-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Friday he will do
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08/25/2003
pitched the proposed package of workers' compensation reform bills introduced last Spring. He emphasized to the group that he has been working with Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and members of the Legislature to reign in costs and reform the system from the ground up.
Echoing his speech the day
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03/02/2005
Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski's aggressive launch of his workers' compensation reform program has not only Labor upset but Industry as well because the introduction of his bill circumvented the work that was being performed by a 12-member nonpartisan committee selected by industry and unions to
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10/16/2006
Two New York state businesses have contributed 150000 toward a "full-scale full-throttle campaign" to reform the state's workers' compensation system the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported last week.
M&T Bank and Excellus BlueCross Blue Shield have pleged the money to Unshackle
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05/03/2011
Gov. Mary Fallin's agenda for her first legislative session as Oklahoma's chief executive - including workers' compensation reform - appears to be "doing very nicely" the Tulsa World reported Sunday.
The newspaper said that in a statement Fallin told the World that at the beginning of the
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