News Digest 5/4/2007

WCIRB Study: Reform Keeps Employers’ Costs Down The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California, in its review of workers’ comp insurers’ for 2006, finds that California employers are continuing … Read More »

News Digest 4/12/2007

Political Ball Bounces at Workers’ Comp Reform Three worrisome pieces of legislation are up this session, all aimed at different parts of recent workers’ comp reform. Whether the bills are … Read More »

News Digest 4/5/2007

South Carolina Republicans Pressure Democrats on Reform With an eye toward the 2008 elections, the South Carolina Republican Party makes a list of state senate Democrats who purportedly oppose overhauling … Read More »

News Digest 3/27/2007

New York’s Reform a Major Victory, But Other Bills Remain on Small Business Radar New York business lobbying groups scored a major victory with the passage of the workers’ comp … Read More »

News Digest 2/28/2007

New York: Deal Reached on Workers’ Comp Reform New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state legislative leaders agree to overhaul the state’s low-payout, high-cost workers’ compensation system, which upstate business … Read More »

Workers’ Comp Roundup (2)

Reform Bill Slides Through Delaware Legislature The Delaware legislature went into overdrive last week, passing legislation that could shave as much as $43 million a year off workers’ comp costs. The bill was passed in less than a week and signed immediately by Governor Ruth Ann Minne. The legislation represents the largest move to improve … Read More »

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LI I Am The Law

Funny thing about the law, every once in a while it has a way of showing up in the oddest places—usually a courtroom—and really throws a monkeywrench into the great … Read More »

XLVI Party Like It’s 1994

Governor Schwarzenegger has announced, with the usual great fanfare, that he is going to reform California’s health care system in 2007. He has assembled a blue ribbon team of experts … Read More »