The Federalization of State Comp
Bob Wilson, the proprietor of WorkersCompensation.com, reports from the 2015 National Council of Self-Insurers Conference held earlier this week in St. Petersburg, Florida. One of Bob’s key takeaways has to do with the relationship between state workers’ compensation systems and the federal government.
Far more relevant today, however, is the lingering feeling that the Feds, through OSHA, are trying to impose greater control or involvement over the myriad of state workers’ comp systems in the nation. It might be paranoia, but the suspiciously coincidental release of the highly critical ProPublica/NPR report and the equally scathing OSHA report on workers’ compensation raised many eyebrows in the industry.
Read the whole column.
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