Department Drops Plans for Workers' Compensation Policy Summit

The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry has announced that it will not conduct its annual workers' compensation policy summit this year - due in part to uncertainty over department funding.The department said it had intended to host the conference in September."The department hopes to conduct a summer or fall workers' compensation conference in 2012," the announcement said.James Honerman, communications director for the department, told WorkCompCentral Thursday that there was "no one particular reason" for the decision.However, Honerman said a contributing factor was "the uncert...