Mr. Art Wilcox

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  Published on: 9/13/2007    Last Visited: 12/15/2007  

  Wilcox receives PIANY citation for workers' compensation efforts
  
  GLENMONT, N.Y.- The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. presented Arthur Wilcox with a presidential citation, in recognition of his participation on behalf of PIANY with New York state workers' compensation reform.
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  Wilcox works as director for the public employee division of the New York State AFL-CIO.He is a member of a number of organizations, including: the New York State Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Board; the National Academy of Social Insurers; the Governor's Workers' Compensation Special Fund Commission; the Workers' Compensation Labor/Management organization for Managed Care; the Workers' Compensation Research Institute National Advisory Board; and the New York State Hazard Abatement Board.He also has served as chair of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health.Wilcox resides in Wurtsboro, N.Y.

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  Published on: 6/1/2008    Last Visited: 6/1/2008  

  Art Wilcox, director of New York's AFL-CIO public employees division, is one of only two NYCIRB board members not affiliated with a large private insurer, and he is highly critical of what he calls the "insurance industry cartel." He's not the only one who suspects insurance companies of playing fast and loose.
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  "I was at a State Insurance Department hearing the other day," says Wilcox, "and not one employer showed up to say that they are paying too much in workers' compensation and won't pay another dollar.

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  Published on: 3/7/2007    Last Visited: 3/7/2007  

  Art Wilcox - Director

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  Published on: 10/19/2007    Last Visited: 12/10/2007  

  Art Wilcox, the State AFL-CIO Public Employee Division Director, said that there were a "host of things" that the unions were looking to amend."Everybody's trying to go through the task force to avoid future vetoes," he added.
  
  Gaining the task force's backing, he observed, would give added credence to any new 9/11 disability bills pertaining to retirement law."We will be talking with our affiliates to see what needs fixing," he remarked.

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  Published on: 7/13/2008    Last Visited: 7/13/2008  

  "Group trusts have been allowed to grow in size to the level of becoming mutual insurance companies which have a whole host of regulations and loops and hurdles," said Art Wilcox, public employee division director for the state AFL-CIO.

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  Published on: 7/8/2008    Last Visited: 8/7/2008  

  "There's been no detailed discussion on what he's going to do, why he's been hired, or anything else," said Art Wilcox, an official with the state A.F.L.-C.I.O., who is on the advisory committee.
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  "We didn't know they were going to hire one of the world's most famous defense witnesses, from Hawaii, and pay him $162,000 to push for a system that he makes money off of," Mr. Wilcox complained.

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  As outlined by Art Wilcox, workers compensation spokesperson for the NYS AFL-CIO, these include starting the durational time clock not at the date of injury, but when the injured worker is classified as PPD; any payments made to the worker prior to that date are not factored into the total number of weeks. At present, Wilcox said, the average time it takes for classification is four years, though many expect this will be one of several targets of streamlining.
  
  Delays and roadblocks, long a feature of the states workers compensation system, are explicitly addressed in Spitzers March 13 letter to the departments of labor and insurance and the Workers Compensation Board. Specifically, the letter calls for a set of draft streamlined workers compensation regulations, with the objective of creating a system in which the claimants case will be adjudicated within 90 days of a dispute. If 90 days may seem long to an injured worker, Wilcox is a realist: I think thats probably the best we can expect, he said.
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  Wilcox pointed to the success of such measures. Some of our affiliates, specifically the UAW, have saved a lot of money on workers compensation by utilizing imaging and radiology networks, he said, noting that they have reduced costs by as much as 50 percent, as compared with whats in the fee schedule right now for the same tests. Much the same provision has been made for pharmaceuticals, requiring the substitution of generics where available and permitting mail-order purchase of medications.
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  If networks and best practices might seem to constrain the injured workers options, those measures are also linked to a change in authorization requirements, something Wilcox said labor is really happy about. Under the previous law, he explained, any medical procedure costing more than $500 required prior authorization from the carrier. What happened often, he said, [is that] you couldnt get the authorization without going to a hearing. So people would wait six months to have the MRI to get the arthroscopic knee surgery that ball players come back from in six weeks.
  
  At the same time the legislation raises the authorization threshold to $1,000, it also provides that no prior authorization is needed if the doctor is following best medical practices. What the entire group tried to do here, Wilcox said, referring to the negotiating team, is to do things that would maybe spend a bit more money on medical costs, but at the same time reduce the lost wage portion.

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  Art Wilcox, public employee director for the New York State AFL-CIO, agreed with the concept of making workers compensation perform like other lines of insurance with respect to pricing and premiums. Everyone wants to make [workers compensation] unique, he said, adding that the concept of using payroll to determine rates has little to do with success, and more to do with the fact that it has always been done that way.
  
  As for using units as the basis for devising workers compensation rates for commercial vehicle businesses, Wilcox supported the general idea. I think we need to do something [to change the current structure], he said.
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  Wilcox also said that misusing payroll is the biggest factor for fraud in workers compensation. New York State, he added, has no effective checks and balances system for what is paid, and he also said that there has not been a concerted effort in the state to combat payroll fraud. He cited the efforts of the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) as an exception.

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  Published on: 4/24/2003    Last Visited: 3/7/2007  

  For further information, contact Art Wilcox, Public Employee Director at: (518) 436-8516e-mail: awilcox@nysaflcio.org

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  Published on: 10/26/2006    Last Visited: 5/5/2007  

  Governor David Paterson, NYS AFL-CIO Director Art Wilcox, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno

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