Manchin Takes Over Workers\' Comp Board
Date: Mar 1st, 2005 10:25:52 pm - Subscribe
Mood: headachy
{How does he have time to take over control of every single thing in West Virginia when he's busy correcting our bad grammar and telling us what we can wear?}
He was elected chairman of the group that will begin changing the state agency into a private entity.
Story by The Associated Press
Gov. Joe Manchin, who promised to take personal responsibility for the state's workers' compensation system, now plans to lead the Workers' Compensation Commission himself.
Manchin spokeswoman Lara Ramsburg said the governor wants to implement the changes he pushed through the Legislature in January.
At its Feb. 16 meeting, the commission chose the governor as its new chairman, replacing Steve White. The Charleston lawyer had served as former Gov. Bob Wise's designee on the commission.
Under White's leadership, the Workers' Compensation Commission stopped hemorrhaging money and cracked down on fraud by workers, medical providers and employers.
In January, Manchin proposed and lawmakers passed sweeping changes to the workers' compensation system, which supports injured workers. Under the new law, the current commission will run the state workers' compensation system until 2006, when the state-run plan will become a private, for-profit mutual.
The commission is not the only board that Manchin will chair. His government reorganization bill that passed in January makes him chairman of several other boards, including the:
* Economic Development Authority.
* School Building Authority.
* Housing Development Fund.
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