Criticism of SWCB Reform Delays Mounting

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe New York Workers' Compensation Board (SWCB) is under fire from a variety of stakeholders for waiting years to implement some of the reforms signed into law by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer in 2007.The Business Council of New York State and attorneys on both sides of the workers' compensation bar said this week that the 13-member panel has been plagued by a bureaucratic tangle of unnecessary forms, inadequate data and policy changes that diverted SWCB from its primary mission.At the center of the controversy is last week's roll-out of the lon...