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The Delaware Workers’ Compensation Task Force Is Back in Action

By admin September 6, 2013 Accounting & Finance, Business, Community & Events, Delaware, Government, Industries, Office Management No Comments

Starting today, the task force hopes to work on continuing to address the skyrocketing costs faced by Delaware Businesses, so that those businesses can better compete with businesses in neighboring states and employ more Delawareans.

Lt. Gov. Matt Denn has scheduled monthly meetings to be held on the 1st Friday of every month through June 2014, beginning Friday, September 6th at 10:00am.

Here are the recommendations from the task force so far:

  • Place tighter controls on workers compensation medical costs. These recommendations include a two-year inflation freeze on the fee schedule for medical treatment of workers compensation recipients, a permanent reduction in the inflation rate allowed for hospital treatment of workers compensation recipients, and reductions in allowed reimbursements in a variety of medical categories.
  • Ensure that insurance carriers’ requests for rate increases receive a high level of scrutiny. These recommendations include the retention of a part-time attorney to represent businesses during the workers compensation rate-setting process, and a system to ensure that insurers are diligently enforcing the state’s medical cost controls.
  • Make the state’s laws encouraging injured workers to return to work more effective; and
  • Improve the state’s workplace safety program to both increase its usage and ensure that is accurately determines which workplaces are using appropriate safety practices.

    • For the final report and all information from meetings, visit: http://ltgov.delaware.gov/

    Interested in participating?

    Meetings will be held on the first Friday of every month beginning Friday, September 6th:

    10:00am – 11:30am

    Department of Labor
    19 W. Lea Boulevard
    Fox Valley Annex (adjacent to the back entrance of M&T Bank; not visible from Lea Blvd)
    Wilmington

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