WCRI Conference to Look at Advantages, Disadvantages of Opt-Out

The Workers Compensation Research Institute will preview its new research and explore challenges to state workers’ compensation systems during its annual conference on March 5-6 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. WCRI will examine whether state workers’ compensation systems are resilient enough to adapt to the next wave of major challenges, according to a WCRI release. A session March 6 on opt-out legislation will examine the benefits and disadvantages of statutes that allow employers to remove themselves from the state workers’ compensation scheme. That session will feat...