Workers comp proposal could initially double costs for state
By RANDY ELLIS NewsOK.com on Mar 8, 2013, at 1:50 AM Updated on 3/08/13 at 8:24 AM
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The Regents will consider architectural firms to provide construction of storm-hardened shelters in the housing area on the Norman campus.
Her biological father from Oklahoma and her adoptive parents from South Carolina spent several hours Monday and Tuesday on the sixth floor of the state's Kerr office building, where the Court of Civil Appeals meets in Tulsa.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - Switching from a workers compensation court system to an administrative system in Oklahoma would about double the state's annual operating cost - at least initially, said Michael Clingman, court administrator.
The extra cost is because workers are entitled to have their claims decided based on the system in place at the time of injury, thus requiring the state to operate a dual system for many years, he indicated.
"It seems likely that the three-year cost of dual systems would run approximately $41 million, or roughly $20 million more than the current system for the first three years," Clingman wrote in a letter to the chairman of the Advisory Council on Workers' Compensation Reform.
Clingman cautioned that accurate cost projections are impossible without knowing specifics about how an administrative system would be set up. For example, it would cost a lot more to conduct hearings at locations across the state than at one or two central locations, he said.
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Original Print Headline: Workers comp proposal could initially double costs
Local
The Regents will consider architectural firms to provide construction of storm-hardened shelters in the housing area on the Norman campus.
Her biological father from Oklahoma and her adoptive parents from South Carolina spent several hours Monday and Tuesday on the sixth floor of the state's Kerr office building, where the Court of Civil Appeals meets in Tulsa.
