AIA meets with AFL-CIO on WC ills. (American Insurance Association, workers' compensation)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, February, 1990 by Brostoff, STeven

AIA Meets With AFL-CIO On WC Ills WASHINGTON - The American Insurance Association and the AFL-CIO have opened a dialogue that could lead to a major joint effort to cure ills in the workers' compensation system. AIA President Robert E. Vagley recently had a meeting with AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Tom Donahue, during which the two agreed that some states have workers' compensation systems that are inequitable and inefficient, Mr.

Vagley said in an interview. "We could not have had a better meeting," the president of the Washington, D.C. based AIA said. "He was supportive of our desire to work to identify areas of inequity and inefficiency." Although no specifics were discussed, Mr. Vagley said, he and Mr. Donahue - whom Mr. Vagley described as AFL-CIO...

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