W.V. Bill Would Create New Division, "Dictatorship

The Charleston Gazette reports that a pending plan to fix that West Virginia's very troubled workers' compensation system would separate the Workers' Compensation Division from the Bureau of Employment Programs and become its own department. The Senate bill is generating controversy in the state because it creates a position with large, unchecked authority.Called the"Workers' Compensation Commission", the agency would be run by an executive director with a salary of between $ 120,000 and $ 180,000 a year subject to increases using "annual inflation indices." The bill would also give the execut...