Lynch: On The Passing of Paul Meagher

Last week workers’ compensation lost a true professional and I lost a dear friend. I first met Paul Meagher 32 years ago when he was senior counsel for Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) and I was a young guy who thought he had a big idea. The idea was that if employers were educated about workers’ compensation they would approach it differently, and losses and experience modifications would fall. Paul believed in the idea. Workers’ compensation was entering a 10-year crisis, and AIM, at the time the largest such organization in America, needed...