UT Transition: What Will Walker Do With WCF?

The big question to the workers' compensation community now that former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt is off to Washington, DC to serve the Bush Administration as Environmental Protection Agency administrator is whether Utah's new Governor, Olene Walker, will continue Leavitt's opposition to privatization of Utah's State Fund.Walker's governorship officially started Tuesday, and faces an uphill charge from Senator Curtis Bramble (R-Salt Lake City) in his tireless pitch to take WCF private. Privatization of the Fund would permit the state to reap a one time reward of between $50 and $300 million, ...