Fixing Special Ed, Part 4:CCSD asked for special-ed audit then attempted to hide results
Revealed: Records tampering, state and federal law violations, illegal IEP changes Read More
DeMint praises Nevada’s ESA law
Nevada parents this year received one of the most marvelous gifts lawmakers can provide: the ability for parents to customize the education of their own children. That was the assessment…
State regulation of work comp proceeded on tilted playing field
When Nevada legislators outlawed lawsuits by injured workers against work-comp insurers and administrators in 1995, the lawmakers essentially made a promise. In the absence of such lawsuits, they pledged, vigorous…
How state lawmakers broke the ‘Grand Bargain’
If you and I make a deal and, step by step, I abandon what I committed to do, are you still obligated to keep fulfilling your end of the pact?…
1990s work-comp laws attacked injured-worker costs on all fronts
If the Nevada workers’ comp pendulum in the 1980s swung too far into easy money for claimants — ultimately putting the system’s entire financial survival at risk — in the…
Political incentives naturally droveNevada workers’ comp into the ditch
Nevada’s workers’ comp system in the early 1990s was facing a near-perfect storm of problems. State bureaucrats and politicians — as reported previously — had for years been ducking the…
Nevada’s current work-comp system a product of earlier near-bankruptcy
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Nevada’s state-run workers’ compensation insurance system was scaring its actuaries. Their job was to calculate whether the State Industrial Insurance System (SIIS) would have enough money,…
Today’s workers’ comp still bears imprint of Prussia’s fear of democracy, rule of law
The unique design of the modern workers’ compensation system of accident insurance owes a surprising amount to the anxieties and fears of democratic reforms that beset Prussia’s upper crust throughout…
How a Prussian Junker’s power obsessions framed modern work-comp systems: Part 2
Near the end of the 1860s, a series of terrible accidents in coalmines and on railroads dominated much of the news all around Europe. Responding to the situation, the Reichstag…
How a Prussian Junker’s power obsessions framed modern work comp systems: Part 1
During the early 20th Century, in every American state save Texas, politicians and politically active special interests — some ostensibly representing labor and others business — passed into law compulsory…
That workers’ compensation makes people crazy is no mere coincidence
“...very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.” — Edmund Burke Nevada’s workers’ compensation system is Kafkaesque. Literally. In one way, it’s simply because workers’…
Is Nevada work comp legit?
Line up all the problems with Nevada’s workers’ comp system that injured workers will tell you about, and it’s easy to begin to wonder: Is this system really on the…
Supreme Court case bears on bill before Legislature
As the Nevada Legislature ponders allowing injured workers to once again choose their doctors, a case now before the state’s high court suggests the current ban on such choice may…