12/08/2004
system they reversed a devastating trend of rate hikes that were suffocating California's business community.
Workers' compensation rates today are falling and the future looks even brighter as more insurers enter the California market and the reform package is fully implemented.
Two key elements
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05/12/2008
Workers compensation costs per claim in Florida appear to have decreased in 2004 in the wake of reforms enacted in 2003 but the decrease did not continue in 2005 according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute released Friday.
The WCRI said the observed patterna one-time
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11/05/2010
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner-elect John Doak R intends to make opposition to federal health care reform legislation and overhauling the state's workers' compensation system priorities for his office the Oklahoman newspaper reported Thursday.
Doak 47 a Tulsa insurance executive defeated
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01/03/2006
New York state Sen. Joseph Bruno R-Brunswick vowed to make workers' compensation reform one of his top priorities in the coming legislative session the Albany Business Review reported last week.
As Senate majority leader Bruno will play a key role as Gov. George Pataki pushes for a final
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05/25/2007
The South Carolina House as predicted refused to accept a decision by the Senate to reject the House's changes to the workers' compensation reform package Thursday and appointed three delegates to a House-Senate conference committee.
An aide to Sen. Larry Martin R-Pickens who headed a reform
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02/03/2005
The main Texas workers' compensation reform bill SB5 Todd Staples R Palestine has been referred to State Affairs for committee action and hearings.
The massive reform act would change the Texas Workers Compensation Commission TWCC to the Texas Department
of Workers' Compensation would
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05/04/2005
Oklahoma state lawmakers on Tuesday continued their partisan theatrics over workers' compensation reform with Democrats once again refusing to recognize Republican Gov. Mary Fallin's authority to preside over the Senate to force a vote on a measure backed by the state's Republican governor.
In
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02/26/2004
president of the California Chamber of Commerce and co-chair of the Workers' Compensation Action Network a coalition of public and private employers working to enact cost-savings reform. The two organizations along with the Committee for Workers' Compensation Reform and Accountability co-sponsored the
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02/07/2014
New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hanson on Thursday called on the Legislature to reform the state's workers' compensation system to help small businesses targeting rising medical costs as a drag on business.
"Employers and workers have done their part to increase workplace safety but medical costs are
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09/04/2009
reform ideas. In addition to leading the state advisory board McNally is former workers' compensation defense attorney and currently vice president of Grimmway Farms which was a major supporter of the 2004 reform bill.
Wei is a lobbyist for the California Labor Federation in addition to representing
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