Rousmaniere: How the Feds Want to Change Workers' Comp

The Department of Labor issued a stinging report on Wednesday that, in effect, calls for a new federal commission to review how the state-based workers’ compensation system fails. The department throws down the gauntlet, challenging defenders of the current system to show how state oversight has not deteriorated in the past 25 years in the ways that matter to it —mainly, preventing financial distress to injured workers.   The report’s title, “Does the Workers’ Compensation System Fulfill its Obligations to Injured Workers?”, signals that depar...