Former Comp Court Administrators Form Coalition to Fight Benefit Cuts

Two former administrators of Oklahoma’s Workers’ Compensation Court have formed a nonprofit organization dedicated to reversing benefit cuts made by the state’s controversial, year-old workers’ compensation reform bill. Michael Clingman, the Workers’ Compensation Court’s administrator from 1985 to 1991 and again from 2011 to 2014, told WorkCompCentral on Wednesday that the “devastating effect” of 2013’s Senate Bill 1062 led him to form the Oklahoma Coalition for Workers’ Rights. Clingman said the organization’s co-leader is Mar...