DWC Says Efforts Underway to Correct Enforcement 'Weaknesses'

By Bill Kidd, Central Bureau ChiefThe State Auditor’s Office cited long-pending enforcement cases at the Division of Workers' Compensation and the division's failure to keep track of which employees were responsible for seeing those cases to completion as “weaknesses” needing correction, in the first of two anticipated reports on the DWC's enforcement efforts.Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Rod Bordelon said in an interview that the division has begun correcting the problems.The auditor’s report doesn’t deal specifically with issues related to...