AFL-CIO Weighing in on N.Y. Trust Battle

The AFL-CIO is wading into the ongoing legal fight between the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board and 13 group self-insured trusts over efforts to assess the trusts for $54 million to $56 million in emergency money needed to shore up the system following a string of trust failures over the past three years. If SWCB Chairman Zachary Weiss and the board don’t intervene, the union warned Wednesday, payments to injured workers caught up in the collapse of at least 11 trusts over the past three years will end in 10 weeks. Art Wilcox, who handles workers’ compensation i...