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Erie County Executive Knows Workers' Comp Law Better than Judges

The saga continues.....Erie County making employees pick up their workers' compensation checks in person.....as we pass the first day in which workers were required to go collect their checks. 

If you tried to set up a cage match between workers' compensation claimants and taxpayers, you don't think many people would want to show up. After all, one is the same as the other. Not so, says Erie County executive Chris Collins after instituting a policy requiring benefits recipients to show up in person to collect their checks.

Potentially having to face their employers after they've already completed valid claims applications, the policy doesn't make sense. Workers' compensation attorneys don't think so, and neither does the state Workers' Compensation Board which ruled that the policy was onerous and against the law.

We don't know if it's politics behind Collins' decision to “protect taxpayers,” but the people he calls political appointees are actually civil servants, meaning they earned their positions in part at least on merit. And they are the arbiters on workers' compensation issues.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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