Current Issues in Workers' Compensation
回顾了明尼苏达州工伤赔偿辩论的历史，指出雇主对高成本的抱怨多基于被夸大的个案，而直觉性解决方案效果有限。
From 1975, when it first became a hot political issue, the debate over workers' compensation in Minnesota has been characterized by more heat than light.Employers' com plaints about high costs were initially supported mainly by anecdotal information about abuses in individual cases, and proposed solutions were more intuitive than based on any particular strategy of addressing high cost impact areas.Upon examination, anecdotal stories of abuses frequently turned out to have been exaggerated.One collection of 25 "horror stories" presented by employers to a legislative committee in 1977 as evidence of the excessive liberality of Minnesota judges led to an investigation which discovered that 14 of the 25 cases had never been before judges but had rather been decided without litigation by insurance com panies on their own motion.Intuitive solutions frequently turned out, upon adoption, not to have any substantial im-*This paper was originally scheduled to be presented at the conference, however, the final legislative debate on the reforms coincided with the conference and Mr. Keefe was unable to make the presentation.