Utah Fund Sues State to Privatize

The saga to privatize Utah's Workers Compensation Fund took another interesting turn as the Fund, mimicking recent action by California's State Compensation Insurance Fund, sued the state over who has authority over what.On Monday WCF filed a lawsuit against the State of Utah claiming that it is a mutual insurance company owned by its policyholders and that it had long ago settled any debt it had to the state.State auditor Auston Johnson doesn't see it that way since the Board of Directors of WCF serves at the pleasure of the governor and the Fund must go to the Legislature "for anything they ...