Assessments Nearly 5 Times the National Average

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefAssessments on New York workers' compensation premiums are nearly five times the national average and remain the highest in the nation, the New York Workers' Compensation Policy Institute reported on Monday.The research group, created last year by the Public Employer Risk Management Association (PERMA), released a follow-up to a report released last February on the assessments New York levies to retire legacy claims from the state's Special Disability Fund, to pay claims from the state's unique Reopened Case Fund and to finance the admin...