The Oklahoma Supreme Court Monday cleared the way for the state to implement an administrative system for resolving disputed workers' compensation claims.
However the decision left important industry trade groups, each with members that underwrite workers' comp insurance, at odds over the outcome.
The state Supreme Court decision to support a law enacted in May, combined with action by Tennessee that clears the way for a similar system to go into effect next July, leaves Alabama as the only state to maintain a court-based adjudicative system for settling workers' comp claims.
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