Adjudicators Talk Pain Drugs, Security at IAIABC

AUSTIN, Texas – Adjudicators from three states addressed the abuse of pain-management drugs and other issues – even office and courtroom security – during a Judges’ Roundtable at Monday’s first day of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions Centennial Convention. Karl Aumann, chairman of Maryland’s Workers’ Compensation Commission and the moderator of Monday’s discussion, didn’t directly raise the issue of how the adjudicating bodies represented on the panel deal with pain-management drugs. Bu...