Employer Group Says 'Option' Bill now on Radar for 2016

The employer lobbying group backing the “Tennessee Option” conceded Monday that state Sen. Mark Green’s voluntary comp bill won’t become law in 2015. “Legislation this big rarely passes in the first year in any Legislature,” Brent Buchanan, communications director for the Association of Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation, said in an interview Monday. “It’s not a reflection on the desire of legislators to have the Tennessee Option. It’s just that big legislation tends to take more time to move through the process.&rdquo...