PFR Maine: Simplest Chance for Major System Redesign?

Initiatives to radically change the 100-year-old workers’ compensation system are growing, despite the daunting state legislative barriers of status quo defenders and inertia. Now it turns out that Maine has a statute on its books that offers a strikingly direct and uncluttered opportunity to radically redesign the state’s system, employer by employer.  Why no one appears interested in seizing the opportunity sheds some light on the potential limitations for radical redesign. Today, the opt-out movement is expanding into southeastern states, led by the Association ...