Richard Victor's Achievement

Richard Victor retires this month as president and chief executive officer of the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute, bringing to a close 32 years of honest and clear leadership on how to think about work injuries.   Victor led industry practitioners and regulators to making injury response more transparent and intelligible.  His most important legacy is, I think, to induce industry participants to act in a more accountable way among themselves and to society at large. The workers’ comp system’s treatment of injured workers is under the most severe s...