Showing posts with label ERISA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ERISA. Show all posts
Monday, December 14, 2015

The Federal Independent Worker

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All the talk in workers' compensation about alternative systems has been about opt-out. Now, a couple of professors, and Congress, i...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Cost Shifting Nonsense

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The Workers' Compensation Research Institute hosted a webinar yesterday about cost shifting to workers' compensation from general he...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

WTF of Work

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You knew it was going to happen. A group of technology executives, financiers, labor union leaders and public policy experts sent a lett...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Marketing Value

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My blog post, Poisoned Kool-Aid generated polarized, partisan sentiments. There were two camps - those who were offended by the alleg...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

NJ Carve Outs - Another Evolutionary Step

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There are many who doubt that alternatives to workers' compensation can or should be permitted to exist, for various reasons. The eviden...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Alternatives to Work Comp and Long Term Issues

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I had a couple of interesting conversations last week at the NCCI Annual Issues Symposium about alternative risk management in workers'...
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Friday, May 4, 2012

OK Demonstrates Disruption Will Occur

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By now you have likely heard that the Oklahoma non-subscription option bill, HB 2155, failed to pass out of the state House, ostensibly beca...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Two Parts of the Promise; The Conversation of Reform

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I've had an ongoing (online) discussion with a colleague whom I consider to be very astute. He said this the other day (paraphrased): Th...
Friday, April 20, 2012

It's a Prairie Fire

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"We may be looking at a prairie fire," Tulsa, Oklahoma attorney Steve Edwards, legislative consultant for the Oklahoma Injury Bene...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

OK's ERISA Option Movement Underlies Broader Discontent

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Oklahoma's experiment with an ERISA option to workers' compensation moves forward remarkably fast, with a hearing today before the ...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Withdrawn Utah Bill Makes Case for Single Source

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Yesterday I posted about Oklahoma taking the risk of exploring (again) a single source medical payment system. Today in WorkCompCentral is ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

OK Explores Single Payer - Is Non-Subscription the Key to Success?

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It's been a while since we heard anything on the single source for medical payment front - the last being a nascent effort in New Jersey...
Monday, January 30, 2012

OK's Grand Experiment - A New Era?

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Oklahoma is moving forward with is most likely one of the biggest social experiments since the invention of workers' compensation 100 ye...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

OK ERISA Option Gets Big Boost

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The reality that Oklahoma may be the first state in the nation with an alternative work injury program option besides Texas just picked up ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

OK Non-Subscription - Start of A Trend?

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Oklahoma may be the start of a new trend in work injury protection with a proposed law to permit employers to provide an option to mandatory...