Pennisi's Exit from SWCB Leaves Group Trust Overhaul in Question

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau Chiefmike@workcompcentral.comThe decision by New York State Workers' Compensation Board (SWCB) Executive Director Joseph Pennisi to leave the board for a powerful budget post in the state Senate raised concerns Friday over the fate of a special task force revamping the troubled group self-insured trust system."This is really big news, and it's a great job for him," said Kathleen Mecca Camp, president of the New York Group Self-Insurance Association."But he's the chair of the task force, and we've been working for months to resolve a lot of very important que...