01/09/2008
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch quickly signed a repeal of a key provision of the General Court's 2007 workers' compensation reform package that forced small companies to insure officers saying the controversial section of House Bill 471 had "unintended consequences."
Lynch announced he had signed
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04/15/2004
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Committee for Workers'
Compensation Reform and Accountability yesterday announced that they have successfully gathered more
than enough signatures needed to qualify the workers' compensation reform initiative for the
November ballot and are prepared to file
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02/17/2011
Republican-backed legislation that is being called the vehicle for workers' compensation reform in Montana was approved by the state House of Representatives on a party-line vote but was re-referred to the Appropriations Committee and will require a third reading and an additional vote in the
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03/28/2005
The Alaska Senate Labor and Commerce Committee may consider a new workers' compensation reform bill this week Chairman Con Bunde R-Anchorage told local media.
Bunde's committee continued taking testimony last week on a bill aimed at reining in medical costs. Bunde said that this year
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01/13/2011
statement Wednesday that workers' compensation reform is a top priority for him in 2011.
Jay Shattuck head of Shattuck and Associates and executive director of the Employment Law Council agreed the recent effort shows that "Democratic leaders certainly recognize that workers' compensation is a problem
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01/25/2005
health care providers as well as primary and specialized care facilities. It also has the potential to reduce costs and bring further rate relief to California employers."
New workers' compensation insurance reform requires that employers and workers' compensation insurers provide information regarding
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12/20/2010
A Montana Republican thinks the proposed reform of the state's workers' compensation system doesn't go far enough to trim costs according to an article on the Montana Watchdog website.
Rep. Scott Reichner R-Bigfork told the website he was working on his own version of a comp reform bill that
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07/25/2011
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin R touted reform of the workers' compensation system in the Sooner State during a visit to Chicago Thursday in an attempt to lure some Illinois-based companies to Oklahoma the Associated Press reported on Friday.
Fallin met with several businesses based in Illinois
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04/26/2013
The state's latest workers' compensation reform bill should be headed straight for Gov. Mary Fallin's desk according to a lobbyist with the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce.
Mike Seney senior vice president of operations for the Oklahoma State Chamber told WorkCompCentral on Thursday that House and
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06/03/2011
rethinks that section of the WC reform legislation. They are civil servants and deserve to be treated as such.<i>Eugene Keefe is a founding partner of Keefe Campbell & Associates a Chicago workers' compensation defense firm. This column was reprinted with his permission from the
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