North Carolina businesses that meet certain criteria must purchase workers' compensation insurance. The insurance is designed to provide compensation to injured workers who suffer an injury while working. Among other things, available benefits under these policies cover medical bills and lost wages.
Earlier this year we wrote about the results of an investigation conducted by the News & Observer regarding the number of employers who carry the required workers' compensation insurance. The result of that investigation was likely a surprise to many North Carolina workers. A staggering number of employers in the state, who under the law are supposed to purchase workers' compensation insurance, had not. The number was in the tens of thousands.
Perhaps at least in part prompted by that investigation, the state took note of the number of employers failing to comply with the requirement. North Carolina legislators recently passed a bill focused on reducing that number. The legislation is known as HB 237. Though in passing, the bill sounds like a good thing, a provision that was added at the last minute could prove to be troublesome.
The provision, designed to provide confidentiality to businesses providing this information to the group that sets workers' compensation insurance rates, appears to restrict the public from gaining access to information on which companies do in fact have the required insurance. Under the bill, the investigation recently conducted by the News & Observer would not have existed since investigators would not have been able to view records regarding the matter.
What do you think about this? Should the public be privy to information regarding which employers follow the law regarding workers' compensation insurance?
Source: Newsobserver.com, "Workers compensation law would restrict public access to information," Austin Baird, June 24, 2012
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