11/03/2005
A suggestion by the president of a major auto parts supplier that high workers' compensation insurance rates may cause plant closures has sparked new interest by state lawmakers in reforming the system the Binghampton Press & Sun Bulletin reported Wednesday.
Delphi Corp. filed for bankruptcy
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11/23/2009
The Bureau of Workers' Compensation reported Friday that efforts to reform premium rates mean more half of Ohio's private employers are sharing in a 139 million savings in 2009 compared to 2008.
The bureaus board of directors received updates on the rate reform efforts at its Actuarial
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01/26/2005
Several proposals addressing Oklahoma's contentious issue of workers' compensation reform were filed by a freshman lawmaker Thursday.
State Rep. Ryan McMullen introduced three bills that he believes will significantly reduce the cost of workers' compensation insurance. McMullen is the former
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01/09/2019
could reduce medical costs.
Alabama already has workers compensation fee schedules for hospitals doctors and ambulatory surgical centers. Another reform bill which would have placed caps on medical reimbursements failed to pass the Legislature in 2013.
The councils statement also took issue
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05/01/2013
The state Senate sent the state's latest workers' compensation reform bill to Gov. Mary Fallin's desk on Tuesday.
After House lawmakers signed the final version of the bill state senators sent Senate Bill 1062 to Gov. Fallin for her signature.
The bill would create an administrative workers
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disability fee schedule but said it is controversial and complicated.
We still expect to go forward we just dont know what direction thats going to take at this point Wong said.
Nolan also said that the pressure for reform is not as great as it was in 2003 and 2004 because the workers compensation
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03/24/2004
way or another California needs to remove the severe disincentive to business and job growth that our dysfunctional workers' compensation system has become. All sides of the debate should strive for reform to be enacted legislatively.
A November ballot campaign on workers' compensation could be
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10/06/2003
While the Oct. 7 recall of Governor Gray Davis continues to be the top news in Sacramento the governor took action this week on important measures that affect insurance.
Gov. Davis signed on Tuesday the package of workers' compensation reform bills passed by the Legislature at the close of
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06/24/2004
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Wednesday applicant attorneys are continuing their public campaign against reform by staging protests outside workers' compensation appeals board offices statewide.
"The attorneys who are protesting today claim to be trying to protect the interests of injured workers but in reality they are only
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01/16/2004
sweeping 200 plus page reform package and restructured the Workers' Compensation Commission.
The Legislature however did not deal with the system's large and growing unfunded long term liabilities estimated to be as high as 4.3 billion.
West Virginia is one of only five states with a
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