Tennessee to Study Workers’ Compensation System
Tennessee state officials, business groups, labor leaders and legal experts are lining up to study the state’s workers’ compensation system, although it may be 2013 before any legislative deals are...
View ArticleTennessee Court Rules on Workers’ Comp Statute of Limitations in Stress Case
A worker who witnessed the deaths of two co-workers but did not file a post-traumatic stress disorder claim until more than a year after the second death is still entitled to workers’ compensation...
View ArticleJeb Bush: Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Reform a Minor Issue
When former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush briefly veered off topic at an education forum in Nashville this week, he inadvertently took aim at what’s expected to be among Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s...
View ArticleTennessee Aims to Change How Workers’ Compensation Disputes Are Settled
Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a workers’ compensation reform bill that could change how injured workers’ claims disputes are handled. Governor Bill Haslam has been looking to reform the state’s...
View ArticleTennessee Senate Approves Governor’s Workers’ Compensation Claims Change
Legislation that seeks to change the way injured workers’ claims are considered passed the Senate despite opponents who say it would reduce benefits and remove impartiality from the judgment process....
View ArticleTennessee House Approves Workers’ Comp Claims Panels Along Party Lines
After defeating several attempts by Democrats to dial back the proposal, the Tennessee House last Thursday approved Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s bill to change the way the state considers injured...
View ArticleTennessee Governor Signs Workers’ Compensation Bill
Tennessee’s workers’ compensation system is going to undergo its most significant changes in decades including the creation of a new administrative court system to handle workers’ compensation claims....
View ArticleHaslam Names Hudgens to Head Tennessee’s New Injured Workers’ Division
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has named Abbie Hudgens as the head of the state’s new Workers’ Compensation Division. Hudgens, who had already been focusing on injured workers issues within the state...
View ArticleTennessee Seminars to Review Workers’ Compensation Law Changes
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development is holding a series of 14 seminars across the state to explain the Workers’ Compensation Reform Act of 2013. The new law removes injured...
View ArticleInsurance Pros in Politics: Being an Agent Prepared Tennessee Sen. Ketron for...
Insurance was a great training ground for now State Sen. Bill Ketron, who has been a member of the Tennessee Senate since 2002 while also serving as president of his own independent agency founded by...
View ArticleTennessee County Official Vows to Carry Out Own Workers’ Comp Drug Test
An East Tennessee official who refuses to enforce a county drug-testing policy says he’ll implement his own. Hawkins County Property Assessor Jeff Thacker told the Kingsport Times-News that he still...
View ArticleTennessee Judge: Comp Benefit Limits for Undocumented Workers Unconstitutional
A Nashville judge has found to be unconstitutional a state law that limits the amount of workers’ compensation benefits laborers living in the country illegally can receive. The ruling stems from the...
View ArticleTennessee Dissolves Residual Workers’ Comp Reinsurance Plan
The Tennessee Workers Compensation Insurance Plan (TWCIP) reinsurance mechanism has been dissolved as part of the state’s transition to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as the new...
View ArticleProPublica, NPR: Inside Corporate America’s Campaign to Ditch Workers’ Comp
This article was published by ProPublica and NPR and is reprinted with permission. Standing before a giant map in his Dallas office, Bill Minick doesn’t seem like anyone’s idea of a bomb thrower. But...
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