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 backed by some of the biggest …
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 residual workers compensation administrator, according to a bulletin from Tennessee Insurance …
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 case of a Guatemalan man whose left arm …
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 disagrees with the county policy, but doesn’t want it to …
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 his late father. Ketron credits …
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 workers’ claims from state trial courts and instead …
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 Department of Labor and Workforce Development, began her six-year …
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. Governor Bill Haslam held a ceremonial bill signing on Tuesday at the …
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 workers’ claims. The chamber voted 68-24, almost entirely along party …
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. The measure, which is part of Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s …
