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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …