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Opt Out 2nd Panel – WCRI Blogging Live – Boston MA

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Opt Out 2nd Panel – WCRI Conference

These are the Opt Out 2nd Panel of WCRI conference  blogging live.

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Presenters –

  • Bruce C Wood- American Insurance Association
  • Elizabeth Bailey- Waffle House
  • Alan Pierce – Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group
  • James Mills- Oklahoma Insurance Department

Great Panel

Bruce Wood- Basically not a proponent of Oklahoma Opt Out – Is flawed and should be enacted

Elizabeth Bailey – Waffle House- Texas Opt out only – no Oklahoma

  • Texas WC system was broken
  • Medical providers were cost drivers not attorneys
  • Lifetime medical benefits

Key Benefits-

  • Cost reduction
  • No litigation – virtually
  • Medical provider selection
  • Plan flexibility
  • Improved workplace safety program
  • Improved communication
  • Decrease in claim cost
  • Claims cost reduced 57%
  • Indemnity costs down 99%
  • Overall savings $9.7 million
  • Indemnity claims were reduced from $6,502 per restaurant to $65
  • 5  litigated claims since 2003
  • Last attorney involvement was 2011
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Waffle House = Impressive Employer with good communication 

Alan Pierce – we may be forgetting the employee in the process

  • Opt out is inconsistent with access  to administrative courts and due process
  • Workers compensation is not another Employer benefit plan
  • WC is a right owned by and owned to workers

James Mills – Oklahoma Department of Insurance

  • Consumer oriented
  • Most expensive Workers Comp state
  • Not data driven issue
  • Title 85 of Statutes
  • Work Comp Act Code
  • Used to be one of two court-based systems
  • Senate Bill 62 = Comprehensive reform > 200 pages
    • Opt Out
    • Residual Market reform

No more room at the table for any more parties in the Workers Comp process

Early medical treatment is a cost reduction driver

Oklahoma option will change and grow over time.

Question to James Mills concerning employee choice of medical treatment – is it a benefit?

Very good comment – lowering claim reporting does not equate to better safety

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