Illinois governor expected to veto workers' comp bills
Illinois lawmakers passed two measures to reform the state's
workers compensation system as the spring legislative session
ended, but Republican Governor Bruce Rauner is expected to veto
both after party colleagues and business groups faulted the bills
as "fake".
One proposal calls for the state's workers' compensation
commission to loan $10mn to the Illinois Employers Mutual Insurance
Company to set up a public competitor to carriers that provide the
cover in the fifth most-populous US state.
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