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	<title>The Capitol Record &#187; retro</title>
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		<title>Retro bill is back &#8212; this time in the House</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/03/retro-bill-is-back-this-time-in-the-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bill to reform the Retrospective Rating Plan is back &#8212; this time for a hearing in the House Commerce and Labor Committee. Read our previous coverage here. Read the bill here. Sponsor, Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, started out her testimony by saying she&#8217;s a strong supporter of retro programs because they work to increase safety. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate passed Retro bill, House considers school funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an hour or so of debate (some of which is excerpted in the post below, but you really should watch it at tvw.org), the Senate passed the Retro Reform bill. It now heads to the House. And, as you might have noticed, it is very near 5 p.m., which is the official cut-off for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated: Retro bill debate</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/03/up-now-retro-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate is now debating the &#8220;retro&#8221; bill and its amendments. What is retro? Find out here. (In short: Retro is an industrial insurance program that allows alike employees to band together and for L&#038;I purposes. If they substantially increase safety and pay in premiums more than they use in benefits, they receive a refund. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retro: The largest check ever issued</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/02/retro-the-largest-check-ever-issued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I was curious about: If L&#038;I pays out some $1.6 billion in retro refunds per year to the dozens of retro pools available, what&#8217;s the largest retro refund ever issued? What&#8217;s the smallest? According to Bob Malooly, who runs the program for L&#038;I, the largest annual refunds are in the neighborhood of &#8220;tens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t employees get a retro benefit?</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/02/why-dont-employees-get-a-retro-benefit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just talked to Steve Pierce and Bob Malooly, communication manager and assistant director for insurance services at the Department of Labor and Industries, respectively. My question: If employees pay 25 percent of industrial insurance, why don&#8217;t they get 25 percent of the payback their employers get from retro. If that last part makes no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Retro? What does the bill do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first hearing on the Retro bill was yesterday. It will continue tomorrow. That gives us just enough time to sort through 1) What the retrospective rating program is and 2) What this bill would do to change it. Retro is a program through the Department of Labor &#38; Industries, or L&#38;I. The industrial insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retro bill: Opposition testimony</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/02/retro-bill-opposition-testimony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Seeger, safety and health manager: &#8220;As a longtime member as the agency retro committee &#8230; I see the benefits and help shape the direction of how this program is run. We quite frankly don&#8217;t need the protection from our organizations that this bill provides.&#8221; He said the safety training benefits the workers, employers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retro bill: A note on live-blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/02/retro-bill-a-note-on-live-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: The panels are being called up in alternating order. Those who are testifying state their names, but in the interest of getting the testimony out in a timely fashion, I&#8217;m taking a best guess at the spelling until I can verify. Thanks! If any of these people are you, e-mail nikis@tvw.org with corrected info. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retro bill testimony: Supportive panel</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/02/retro-bill-testimony-supportive-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Lerner, who works for a small software company: &#8220;I was alarmed to find out the amount of the overpayment each year,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear that we need more oversight if it took us 15 years to find this problem that was costing $10 to $15 million a year.&#8221; Sue Matthews, President of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retro bill testimony starts now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the bill. Retrospective rating allows employers to group together, claim L&#038;I losses as a single entity, and receive refunds if their claim losses are less than the premium they paid. The program made headlines during campaign season because at least one group used refund money to pay for campaign ads. In the last few [...]]]></description>
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