N.Y. Group Calls on Workers' Comp Board to Fully Implement Reforms

Will the reforms promised to create a new, more efficient workers’ comp system that would function better for everyone, and lower overall costs for employers ever be realized?

A local commerce association is calling on the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board to fully implement the workers’ comp reforms that were enacted in 2007. The group says the Board’s delay in fully carrying out the reforms has led to rapidly rising costs.

Passed by the legislature with bipartisan support, the 2007 reforms reflected a “grand compromise” that required employers, workers, and state government to accept major changes, according to a new report from the Rochester Business Alliance.

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