ProPublica/NPR Look toward Alternative Benefit Plans

ProPublica and National Public Radio teamed up to deliver a report posted online Wednesday that asserts the alternative benefit plans approved by Oklahoma regulators have lower benefits, more restrictions and virtually no independent oversight. The report, which follows up a series of articles in March about reductions in workers' compensation benefits around the nation, chronicles the efforts by business groups to persuade state lawmakers in Tennessee, South Carolina and other states to pass laws allowing alternatives to traditional workers' compensation. Oklahoma passed "o...