Workers' Comp Agency Head Plans E-Filing, Other Initiatives

The head of Louisiana’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration plans to emphasize electronic filing and notification initiatives to save time and expense at the agency – along with promoting evidence-based treatment guidelines and improving return-to-work efforts.Those goals are in line with those set out by the Louisiana Workforce Commission in a report issued last week.Director Chris Broadwater tells WorkCompCentral that what he envisions “is not something revolutionary or new.”“Other states have moved to this years ago, as have the federal courts,...