USPS Exploring TPA for $700M Program

The United States Postal Service, the nation's single largest employer, is having it's own set of workers' compensation woes, and is exploring outsourcing certain aspects of its workers' compensation program to a third party administrator.The Service hired accounting/consulting firm, Deloitte & Touche and has had talks with operatives at GAB Robins to examine options available to USPS.In a report dated 6/30/03, Deloitte noted the special challenges facing the Service in workers' compensation, not the least of which is that the Service is governed by the Federal Employees Compensation Act (FE...