08/17/2012
The California Department of Industrial Relations on Thursday announced support for a comprehensive workers compensation reform package even though a draft bill negotiated behind the scenes by labor and business representatives has not yet been introduced in the state Legislature.
Without
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11/24/2003
Stakeholders in the workers' compensation system had their first look and policy debate over Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's aggressive proposal to reform California's flawed benefit delivery system yesterday during an informational hearing before the Assembly Insurance Committee the
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08/22/2003
California Governor Gray Davis yesterday met with the California Black Chamber of Commerce to discuss his ongoing efforts to enact meaningful reform to California's workers compensation.
"We are nearing the finish line on our marathon efforts to fix California's broken workers' compensation
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05/18/2004
Several Kansas legislative measures supported by the American Insurance Association AIA and other insurers focusing on workers' compensation reform were defeated this year.
Despite momentum early in the Kansas Senate session for passing reform the Kansas Trial Bar Association organized
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12/24/2005
Workers' compensation reform packages came in various shapes and sizes this year from a tune-up in North Carolina to a full overhaul in West Virginia. Illinois passed its first major comp law changes in decades while Hawaii's governor continued a three-year campaign of futility.
Alaska
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01/23/2006
New York state insurance brokers have thrown their support to Gov. George E. Patak's workers' compensation reform plan which was included in the governor's budget proposal introduced last week.
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York and the New York Compensation Action
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09/12/2003
State Compensation Insurance Fund released the following press statement yesterday in response to the Conference Committee on Workers' Compensation Reform to the California legislature
California's State Compensation Insurance Fund hailed cost saving measures contained in the Legislature's
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08/13/2012
By Greg Jones Western Bureau Chief
The parties closest to negotiations that will reportedly cut 1.4 billion in costs to increase benefits by 714 million havent announced a final deal but workers compensation reform will be the subject of an informational hearing on Wednesday according to
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12/28/2010
reforms in the Senate. The unions are reportedly lobbying to limit the effect of those reforms on its members.
The paper reports that the Senate is aggressively pursuing workers' compensation reform and talking about passing some form of reform before the current veto session ends in early January while
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12/21/2009
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau Chief
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Experts in the workers' compensation industry and the nation's self-insurance industry warned last week that the fragmented effort by Congress to reform the embattled health care system now poses a significant threat of change
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