The mess, and it is a real mess, that is the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation scandal has spread its ugly tentacles. The latest is the innuendo that the present head of the North Dakota state workers comp insurer has been unfairly linked to one of the accused felons involved in the Ohio BWC corruption. (ND is a monopolistic state, where WC insurance is only available from the state itself).
I have no personal knowledge of the ND fund situation, but find it most distressing that an individual who once had the misfortune to work with one of the sleazy officials in Ohio would be somehow tainted by that link.
Fortunately, an upcoming audit report will provide an objective review of the ND fund’s operations (link is the past report, new report is due shortly) and results. Here’s hoping that it finds nothing even close to the swamp of misdeeds and corruption that was Ohio’s BWC.
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