To: Clemenza
NO! I have operated a small business in CA since 1985, and I'm still in business here, but barely. I have seen my worker's comp double in the last two years. Increasingly, I have had to eliminate staff payroll to counter the effects of WC costs. The thing that really gets me is that I have had not one claim in the 19 years I have been in business.
I am under constant pressure from competitors. And it is no surprise that the biggest competitor comes from Florida.
Norge
8 posted on
02/25/2004 11:33:26 PM PST by
norge
To: norge
I don't see how we are going to break the hammerlock the leftists have on the state!
9 posted on
02/25/2004 11:40:54 PM PST by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: norge
Forgive the phrase, but I feel your pain. New York is no paradise to run a business in either.
10 posted on
02/26/2004 12:29:43 AM PST by
Clemenza
(I am a sick man...I am an unattractive man...I am an ANGRY man --- Doestoyevsky)
To: norge
In 1994 they revamped the workers comp laws here. I know lawyers whose practices disapeared overnight. It USED to be that cases had a cashout settlement value that made a case worth litigating. Now the cashout provision was eliminated. So a case worth 100000.00 dropped to virtually 10000.00.
The EXTRA point that had NOTHING to do with lawyers that helped is the investigations AFTER the claims. Video of crippled for life people doing heavy work.
Some examples of the rampant abuse would really help. Whenever there is a government system, the system will be manipulated.
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