January, 1997 issue
Nevada’s current work-comp system a product of earlier near-bankruptcy
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Nevada’s state-run workers’ compensation insurance system was scaring its actuaries. Their job was to calculate whether the State Industrial Insurance System (SIIS) would have enough money,...
1990s work-comp laws attacked injured-worker costs on all fronts
If the Nevada workers’ comp pendulum in the 1980s swung too far into easy money for claimants — ultimately putting the system’s entire financial survival at risk — in the...
How state lawmakers broke the ‘Grand Bargain’
If you and I make a deal and, step by step, I abandon what I committed to do, are you still obligated to keep fulfilling your end of the pact?...
State regulation of work comp proceeded on tilted playing field
When Nevada legislators outlawed lawsuits by injured workers against work-comp insurers and administrators in 1995, the lawmakers essentially made a promise. In the absence of such lawsuits, they pledged, vigorous...
DeMint praises Nevada’s ESA law
Nevada parents this year received one of the most marvelous gifts lawmakers can provide: the ability for parents to customize the education of their own children. That was the assessment...
Experts: Years of work-comp turmoil ahead
The latest rescue of Obamacare by the U.S. Supreme Court ensures that employers, over the next several years, can expect extra turmoil in state workers’ comp programs. That’s because genuine...
Nevada parents demonstrate massive desire for school choice
Las Vegas parents swamped state treasurer hearing rooms at the Sawyer government center Friday, pleading that regulations soon to be written allow their children quickly into the state’s historic new...
The work-comp logjam is leaking
It’s common knowledge that, for over a century, state-mandated workers’ comp systems have held sway as the “exclusive legal remedy” available to victims of workplace accidents. Frequently overlooked, however, is...
Avid for Stimulus money, pols short-circuitedoversight, got green-energy flops in return
When Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama return to Las Vegas Monday for Reid’s 8th Annual National Clean Energy Summit, there’ll be a ghost with them on the dais....