The state Assembly advanced a bill Tuesday that would cut by more than half the number of union representatives on a panel with great influence over the state’s workers’ comp policies. Assembly Bill 308, which was up before Assembly lawmakers ...

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Those who know the history of Wisconsin’s Worker’s Compensation system often talk of the “Grand Bargain” reached in 1911, when the state created the country’s first constitutional worker’s comp system. Workers gave up the right to sue for negligence while ...

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Every two years, the Worker’s Compensation Advisory Council deliberates on a package of modifications to the rules and statues governing the state’s workers’ compensation system.

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Buffeted on one side by objections from medical professionals and on the other by concerns raised by a business group, proposed changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system likely will go nowhere this year.

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Free-market principles are at the heart of arguments both for and against using price controls to hold down employers’ disability-benefits costs.

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The price of medical treatments paid for through the state’s workers’ compensation system would decrease 20 percent under government-imposed controls a group of policy advisors proposed in December.

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Bucking the recommendations of medical providers, the members of a state advisory council want government price controls to tamp down the cost of using workers’ compensation to pay for medical care.

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A top union official scolded medical providers Tuesday for seeking one deadline extension after another amid attempts this year to make changes to Wisconsin’s workers’ compensation system.

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Legislators eager to slow rising medical costs in the state’s workers’ compensation system are suggesting an alternative to a fee schedule proposed earlier this year.

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