Labor, Dems Worry Workers Irresponsible With Claim Settlements

Armed with a new study showing roughly 5% of eligible injured workers are settling their claims, employers in Washington state are mounting a new push to lower the minimum age at which workers are allowed to enter structured settlements. But labor advocates and some Democrats say the same report shows injured workers are fiscally irresponsible and can’t be trusted make good decisions about how to spend their settlement checks. The question of whether the injured workers should be allowed to settle claims was a major sticking point between labor and management during reform discuss...