Tennessee's 2013 reform legislation seems to have had the effect that employer groups hoped for: driving down costs and reducing attorney fees, according to a new report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute.
Tennessee dropped from the middle of the pack of 18 study states to near the bottom for attorney involvement, WCRI's Compscope Benchmarks report, published this week, shows. About 20% of claims involved an attorney in 2015, compared with 31% in 2012, according to the study.
The decline is largely the result of the 2013 reforms in Senate Bill 200, which among othe...
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