Oklahoma Commish Urges Board Not to Increase Workers’ Comp Rates

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma State Board for Property and Casualty Rates will hold hearings in mid November on a proposed 12.4 percent workers' comp rate increase put forward by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.Insurance Commissioner Cathy Weatherford, who chairs the state board, appears to be lobbying her fellow board members in the public statements she makes saying she hopes there will be little or no rate increase for 1995.If past record is any indication, the commissioner is likel