Workers' Compensation Committee Meeting

Contact: Margaret Moree
   

When:

 Tuesday, December 6, 2011Register
11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Where:

12 Corporate Woods Boulevard
2nd Floor Conference Room
Albany
Directions


Setting the 2012 Legislative/Regulatory Agenda

Please join in shaping The Business Council’s 2012 priority issues in the workers’ compensation area.  Register online here. The meeting is designed to accomplish two objectives:  identify priority legislative items, and identify regulatory/rule reform items to ask for as part of an overall regulatory relief agenda. This meeting will focus solely on workers’ comp issues.

If you wish to participate by phone, please let me know. Also, I welcome any and all comments via email or other means which ensures I benefit from your feedback as we shape the 2012 agenda.

Some initial draft 2012 agenda items might include (and for which your feedback is requested):

  • Modification to Scheduled Loss of Use Awards.
  • Repeal of the Aggregate Trust Fund.   
  • Modification to how assessments on workers’ comp policies and carriers are assessed, collected, and reconciled.
  • Regulatory reforms in the processing of WC claims and practice.
  • Address significant financial issues related to defaulted self insured trusts; including implementing measures to support expedited cost recovery from members of defaulted groups.
  • Conducting thorough review of Board processes (including but not limited to those adopted as part of the 2007 reforms) to identify whether they have created additional frictional costs, or in fact have streamlined processes to allow for better efficiencies within the system. 
  • Providing a clear path to classification of PPDs, assure reasonable methods to classify PPD claimants; ensure administrative processes for classification bring NYS closer to the national average of maximum medical improvement (about 19 months) from current levels of approximately 48 months.