HD31 - Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying Workers' Compensation Self-Insurance

  • Published: 1984
  • Author: Joint Subcommittee Studying Workers' Compensation Self-Insurance
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 8 (Regular Session, 1983)

Executive Summary:
The Joint Subcommittee studying the advisability of state and local governments' establishing a self-insurance plan for workers' compensation insurance was established pursuant to House Joint Resolution No. 8 of the 1983 General Assembly. The Resolution was introduced since many people felt that a self-insurance plan could lead to savings in both the state and local governments' budgets.

Delegate Joan H. Munford of Blacksburg served as Chairperson of the subcommittee. Other members of the House of Delegates who served on the subcommittee were Howard E. Copeland of Virginia Beach, C. Richard Cranwell of Vinton, A. R. Giesen, Jr. of Waynesboro, Nora A. Squyres of Falls Church, and Warren G. Stambaugh of Arlington.

Senator Virgil H. Goode, Jr. of Rocky Mount served as Vice-Chairperson of the subcommittee. Other members of the Senate who served on the study group were Elmon T. Gray of Waverly, Richard J. Holland of Arlington, and Madison E. Marye of Shawsville. Interested parties who provided information to the subcommittee included: H. Douglas Hamner, Director of the Department of General Services; Charles F. Scott and Robert B. Williams of the Office of Risk Management; Wayne F. Anderson, Secretary of Administration and Finance; Charles Robinson and Bradley Harmes of the Virginia Municipal League Self-Insurance Association; Thomas Rutherfoord and William Koehler of the Thomas Rutherfoord Insurance Agency; Wayne Higgins, Vice President for Operations and Finance of Old Dominion University; Ray C. Hunt, Jr., Vice President, and Ray Haas, Vice President of Administration of the University of Virginia; James Guerdon, Vice President and Bruce Chase, Treasurer, of Virginia Commonwealth University; Raymond M. Smoot, Treasurer and Associate Vice President of Finance of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard L. Miller, Vice President of Mary Washington College; Lawrence W. Broomall, Jr., Vice President of Business Affairs of the College of William and Mary; George B. Minter and Jim Harris of the State Department of Corrections; Lucian Hiner, Chief Deputy Commissioner of the State Industrial Commission; George Weston of the Virginia Compensation Rating Bureau; Aubrey Baird of the State Department of Highways and Transportation; the American Insurance Association; William H. Murphy and Robert W. Esenberg of the State Insurance Advisory Board; and the Travelers Insurance Company.

C. William Cramme', III, Senior Attorney and Terry Mapp, Research Associate of the Virginia Division of Legislative Services served as legal and research staff for the subcommittee. Barbara Hanback of the House Clerk's Office provided administrative and clerical staff assistance for the study group.