Claimant Attorneys Fighting Cost Cutting with Constitutional Challenges

Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part series published in the Word on Workers' Compensation report, presented Saturday at the fourth annual WorkCompCentral Gala and Comp Laude Awards in Burbank. This year brought multiple challenges to comp systems across the country, with attorneys arguing that the “rights and remedies” available to workers have been so severely reduced that they no longer constitute a fair substitute to civil action. Meanwhile, California and Oklahoma have limited the judiciary’s involvement in comp cases, with Oklahoma transitioning it...