January, 1998 issue
‘A total lack of common sense’ at health district?
OVERTON — It was a story that made headlines across Southern Nevada. The Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) descended upon a banquetfor fresh-food enthusiasts in Overton, Nev., and forced the hosts to pour bleach on...
CCSD trustees show change of heart on Policy Governance
LAS VEGAS — For more than a decade the Clark County school board has governed under Policy Governance® — the trademarked governance paradigm that Drs. John and Miriam Carver promote and for which...
Ratepayers tapped for a $4.4 million early Christmas gift to City of Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — NV Energy officials presented the City of Las Vegas with a $4.4 million rebate check Tuesday, but it was state ratepayers who were actually funding the check....
Is Nevada work comp legit?
Line up all the problems with Nevada’s workers’ comp system that injured workers will tell you about, and it’s easy to begin to wonder: Is this system really on the...
Political incentives naturally droveNevada workers’ comp into the ditch
Nevada’s workers’ comp system in the early 1990s was facing a near-perfect storm of problems. State bureaucrats and politicians — as reported previously — had for years been ducking the...
Today’s workers’ comp still bears imprint of Prussia’s fear of democracy, rule of law
The unique design of the modern workers’ compensation system of accident insurance owes a surprising amount to the anxieties and fears of democratic reforms that beset Prussia’s upper crust throughout...
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?...