(Doug Connell's rate hearing remarks added below November 14, 2002)
(Rates BY FUND added below October 2, 2002)
September 25, 2002 (Update to news release below)
L&I adds hearings in Tacoma and Vancouver
on proposed 2003 rate
increase
TUMWATER — The Department of Labor & Industries has scheduled two more public hearings, one in Tacoma and one in Vancouver, to take testimony on a proposed 40.5 percent increase in workers’ compensation premiums in 2003. See revised list of hearings below.
September 20, 2002 (Revised September 25, 2002)
L&I adds fifth public hearing to give Central Washington employers and workers an opportunity to comment on proposed 2003 rate increase
TUMWATER — The Department of Labor & Industries has scheduled a fifth public hearing, this one in Yakima, to take testimony on a proposed 40.5 percent increase in workers’ compensation premiums in 2003.
The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m., Oct. 31, and will be held in Region 5’s Yakima Field Services Location, 15 W. Yakima Ave., Suite 100. The hearing was added to give farmers, orchardists, employers and workers a convenient way to comment on the proposed rate increase.
In all, five seven public hearings will be held. They are set for:
- Spokane
10 a.m., Oct. 28
Labor & Industries Office, Conference Room 4
901 N. Monroe St., Suite 100 - Everett
10 a.m., Oct 29
Labor & Industries Office
729 100th St. SE - Tukwila
10 a.m., Oct. 30
Labor & Industries Office
12806 Gateway Dr. - Yakima
10 a.m., Oct. 31
Labor & Industries Office
15 W. Yakima Ave., Suite 100 - Tumwater
10 a.m., Nov. 1
Labor & Industries Auditorium
7273 Linderson Way SW
(Updated September 25, 2002: Two hearings added below.)
- Tacoma
10 a.m., Nov. 4
Labor & Industries Office
950 Broadway, Suite 503 (Vashon Room) - Vancouver
10 a.m., Nov. 6
Labor & Industries Office
312 SE Stonemill Dr., Suite 120
Employers and workers who are unable to attend one any
of the hearings are invited to send their comments on the rate increase to Kathryn Kimbel, manager, Employer
Services, Department of Labor & Industries, 7273 Linderson Way, Tumwater, WA., 98501. You may also email your comments to her at LANZ235@lni.wa.gov. Comments are due no later than Nov.
2 8.
If adopted, this would be the workers’ compensation program’s first general rate increase in eight years. It is needed to bring premiums more in line with benefits, and to off-set recent losses in the financial markets. In recent years, earnings on investment had allowed L&I to keep its premium rates artificially low.
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For more information on the proposed rate increase please contact Robert T. Nelson, L&I Public Affairs, at 360-902-6043.
Click here for a complete list of proposed rates
by industry. (383K)
Click here for a complete list of
proposed rates by fund. (87K) (Download Excel viewer
here.) (Added
October 3,
2002)
Doug Connell (AD/Insurance Services) remarks at rate hearings (111K) (Added November 14,
2002)
