Immigration Reform Expected to Impact Comp Systems

By Michael WhiteleyWorkCompCentral CorrespondentAdvocates for immigrant workers and claimants' attorneys say that federal immigration reform could have an impact on state workers' compensation systems by ending a practice often used by employers and insurance carriers to report undocumented workers who file injury claims to immigration authorities. Rebecca Smith, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project, said last week that concerns about the abuse of immigrants who file workers' compensation claims are playing a role in the New York-based organization's push for ...