The New York Workers Compensation Board (WCB) has posted on its Web site for public comment proposed regulations designed to limit the time it takes to resolve workers' compensation claims that insurers contest to 90 days or less.
The contested cases are called “controverted” claims, and eight years ago they took an average of 353 days to resolve, said Joe Cavalcante, a WCB spokesman.
In 2005, controverted claim resolution averaged 200 days, and though that number had dropped below 200 in 2006. Workers' compensation reform legislation in 2007 set a goal of resolving these claims in 90 days or less.
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