Upstate Towns and Villages Wrangling Over County Self-Insurance

A New York appeals judge has ordered three villages and a town in Herkimer County, N.Y., to take their fight over the county's self-insurance plan to a state Supreme Court jury in neighboring Oneida County.An appeals judge in Rochester, N.Y.,  granted the municipalities' request for a change of venue in the four-year-old battle between the New York villages of Herkimer, Ilion and Frankfort and the town of Frankfort over 2005 assessments made by plan administrators, The Herkimer Evening Star reported.The four municipalities attempted to pull out of the workers' compensation pla...