New Commission Gearing Up to Handle 14,000 Comp Claims

By Michael Whiteley, Southern Bureau ChiefThe new Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Commission is gearing up to handle 14,000 injury and illness claims in 2014 and is working with Gov. Mary Fallin to prepare "clean-up" legislation to be considered by the Oklahoma State Legislature.Commissioner Robert Gilliland, an Oklahoma City trail attorney appointed to the three-member commission by Fallin in October, said Wednesday the commission is still "fine-tuning" 86 pages of emergency rules it adopted prior to its launch on Feb. 1. So far, the commission has received one claim by an injured worker.G...