IAIABC Panel Says Noice Increasing re Minor Violations

In a session dubbed the "regulatory forum," chief executives of workers' compensation agencies exchanged views with insurers on what the insurers see as "trigger happy" enforcers that pepper them with fines for non-compliance. One insurer called it a "barrage" of fines for minor or inconsequential violations of agency rules. "The decibel level of payer complaints about enforcement actions seems to have gone up in the last year or so," said Paul Dionne, Executive Director of the Maine Workers' Compensation Commission. "Yet, the complaints may be part of a learning process on both sides-regul...