Workers Compensation Oversight Committee
 AIM’s Workers Compensation
Oversight Committee is by invitation, a group of AIM members
focused on legislative and regulatory issues affecting workers compensation
(WC) issues and their impact on the businesses in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. The group assists AIM in developing its
pro-business legislative agenda and works to defeat legislation offered
by others that would be harmful to the business climate, costly to the
businesses located here or complicated to comply with or administer.
Members
The Committee is comprised of business owners, WC managers,
Human Resource managers, insurers and attorneys.
Format
The Committee meets as necessary. An update on WC
legislative matters at the State House is presented. A public
official in the WC arena, such as the Chair of the Joint Committee
on Labor and Workforce Development or the Commissioner of the
Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA), usually addresses the group
about current legislation or other relevant administrative
matters. This presentation is followed by a discussion among
members concerning issues the committee can work on, strategy for
moving the agenda forward, and other relevant business.
Issues
During recent legislative sessions, AIM was actively
involved in the ongoing effort to maintain the WC reforms from 1991 and
real attempts to undo those reforms. These reforms are critical
because they restored balance to the WC system, dramatically reduced
excess litigation at the DIA, reduced employers' costs for WC insurance,
and effectively eliminated WC costs as an obstacle to growing a business
in Massachusetts. The WC committee also explores ways to support
legislative initiatives to improve the system. The WC committee
occasionally involves members actively lobbying in favor of or against
legislation at the State House. See the AIM Foundation Report for a Workers
Compensation Overview.
AIM Committee Staff
John
Regan staffs the Workers Compensation
Committee and has been with AIM since 2000. John is AIM's
Senior Vice President of Government Affairs.
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