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Tort Reform Foundation Names State Supreme Court No. 4
01/12/2015
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The American Tort Reform Foundation named the Florida Supreme Court number four on its list of "judicial hellholes" in 2014 pointing to a workers' compensation case as evidence of the court's unfair decisions.
The foundation pointed specifically to 12
Category: News
MO Governor Signs Reform Bills
03/31/2005
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt on Wednesday signed the Legislature's workers' compensation reform package into law.
The governor said in a press releases that Senate Bills 1 and 130 signed together keep his promise "to restore fairness to Missouri's workers' compensation system by protecting rights
Category: News
Committee Passes 4 Comp Bills
08/20/2012
price this component in its analysis of the reform. The bill analysis projects costs of up to 190000 from the Workers Compensation Administrative Revolving Fund in fiscal years 2012 and 2013. In following years the analysis also projects annual fees of 120000 that would be offset by certification
Category: News
Governor's Conference to Feature Discussion of State, Federal Reforms
07/24/2012
The Montana 2012 Governors Conference on Workers Compensation and Safety scheduled to run Sept. 19 through Sept. 21 will feature a discussion on the impact of the national Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as well as an analysis of reform legislation passed in 2011.
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Category: News
CWCI Says Medical Benefits Now Exceed Pre- Reform Levels
09/13/2011
The California Workers' Compensation Institute said on Monday that the average amount paid per claim for treatment prescriptions and durable medical equipment medical management and cost-containment programs and med-legal reports have exceeded levels that preceded reform legislation passed in
Category: News
Illinois Workers ' Comp Reform Hurts Injured Workers
09/30/2011
This summer Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed workers' compensation reform into law and several of the measures will go into effect this September. The goals of the reform were to cut costs help employers and jump start the economy. If the new reforms do accomplish any of these goals however
Category: Industry Insights
CA Local Gov's WC Costs Grow 66% Over Past 4 Yrs
04/02/2004
own deficit. These additional workers' compensation costs create added pressure to cut local services."
"We strongly support the Governor's current push for workers' comp reform in the legislature this year" said McKenzie. "If the legislature can't pass reform we'll support the Governor's
Category: News
N.Y. Comp Alliance Vows Continued Opposition to AMA Guides
02/20/2008
York State Insurance Department and Christopher Brigham the senior contributing editor for the Sixth Edition of the AMA Guides for the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment.
A discussion over Brigham's contract surfaced during a closed meeting of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's Workers' Compensation Reform Task
Category: News
Reform Could Reach Delaware House This Month
01/09/2007
Scarcely six months after Gov. Ruth Ann Minner threatened to force lawmakers back into session over workers' compensation reform a compromise appears poised for introduction to the Delaware House.
Joe Weik who represents the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association said a compromise bill could
Category: News
WCRI Says Fee Schedule Reforms Achieved Intended Result
09/03/2010
Reform of Floridas workers compensation fee schedule in 2003 achieved its intended results significantly increasing the prices paid for physician services and reducing the average payment per service for hospital outpatient services the Workers Compensation Research Institute WCRI said in a
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