Alliance: Comp Costs Not Out of Line, Benefits Inadequate

The New York Workers’ Compensation Alliance issued a report Wednesday to make the case that amounts paid in benefits have increased only modestly since 2012 and are not out of line with other states. The injured worker advocacy group uses data from the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s 2016 annual report and national statistics from the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a Department of Labor report released in the waning days of the Obama administration to make four major assertions in its 12-page “white paper”: Workers’ compensation is n...