West Virginia Industrial Council Schedules Meeting

The West Virginia Workers' Compensation Industrial Council has scheduled a meeting April 24 to review draft amendments to the rules governing claims management, policies and coverage and assessments for retiring debt for the state's old workers' compensation fund.The changes are part of a series of legislative and regulatory initiatives to prepare the state's market to open to private competition on July 1.The fund officially closed to new claims on Jan. 1, 2006, when the state launched BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co., a private carrier started with a $200 million state loan.U...