Insurers, Self-Insureds Still Paying for State Services Outside of Comp

With hopes dashed during this year’s legislative session, the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission and disappointed stakeholders are stuck for now with a situation in which insurance companies and self-insureds, whose assessments fund the commission, are essentially paying for the operations of state agencies with no connection whatsoever to workers’ comp. “From a philosophical standpoint, if Company A pays me $50,000 to regulate them, and that $50,000 goes to the general fund, and our budget gets cut 10%, they basically have given the state $5,00...