Single Judge Worker' Compensation System

Another number of years in a state with a single judge workers’ compensation system, one judge to decide all legal matters in WC. The judge is a political appointee of Governor Schweitzer (D) and worked as an attorney representing injured workers during a portion of his career before becoming the Montana WC judge. This topic was not considered by the Governor’s Labor Management Advisory Council nor by legislators in the past session, when sweeping reforms to the WC system were passed into law…with everyone trying to figure out and address the distinction held by Montana…the highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the United States. Read the ‘press release’ here…