Labor-Friendly Comp Bill Likely to Die in Senate as Legislature Adjourns

The Oklahoma Legislature is set to bang the gavel three weeks early and head home Friday without passing significant workers’ compensation reforms it has been mulling for the past two sessions. And that’s just fine with Brig. Gen. Hopper Smith, the newly seated executive director of the Workers Compensation Commission, a board created in 2014 following the state’s last major work comp overhaul in 2013. “As a former legislator, I can tell you that sometimes no bill at all is better than a bill that includes some of what you want laden with unworkabl...