Nearly 5,000 Liens Activated Since Relaunch of Payment Portal

Nearly 5,000 liens were activated, bringing in close to $500,000 in fees, in the first four days after the Division of Workers' Compensation relaunched its online payment portal Monday. The DWC received $498,800 in activation fees on 4,988 liens from Monday through Thursday, according to data provided Friday by division spokesman Peter Melton.  Daily totals Melton provided show there was not a big rush to activate liens on Monday when the division resumed collecting the fees. Fewer liens were filed Monday – 1,162 – than any other day last week. The largest number of lien...