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WORKERS COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Staff Contact: Ken Pokalsky

Issues and Priorities

CIRB's

  • Issues in Brief - Business Council Priority Issues
    • Workers Comp Reform
    • Workers Comp Assessments
    • Comparison of workers' compensation benefit legislation

Council Workers' Comp News

  • Extra business costs in New York total more than $35 billion, Public Policy Institute study finds (December 26, 2006)
  • New Business Council survey: New York State employers say health-insurance costs and costs of workers' comp, energy, and business taxes are their top policy concerns (December 19, 2006)
  • Council urges approval of bill to change how some employers pay workers' comp assessments
  • Legislative session ends with defeat of infamous 'Wal-Mart' bills; Lawmakers also pass Council-supported bill to change workers' comp assessments (June 26, 2006)
  • Leading lawmakers introduce sweeping workers' comp reforms (June 21, 2006)
  • Debt reform, workers' comp reform, avoiding new health-insurance mandates top Council's legislative priorities (June 13, 2006)
  • Business leaders say workers' comp damages state's economy (April 25, 2006)
  • Council and others in a coalition urge Albany to enact workers' comp reform this year 3/1/06
  • Business Council launches Comp Watch '06 to document case for workers' comp reform; an 'e-advocacy' campaign also begins 2/1/06
  • Special Funds
    • Business Council testimony before the Governor's Study Commission on Workers' Compensation Special Funds
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