| The Workers' Compensation situation in this country | | | | seem to be worthy of assisting in attaining the |
| is unbelievable. Why, well because of lawsuits and | | | | elusive ROI or profit that all business owners and |
| attorneys mostly. The costs of workmen's | | | | franchisees seek. The prices in California have risen |
| compensation on the business community is part of | | | | so fast that the costs of workmen's compensation |
| the reason for the slow return of high paying blue | | | | have doubled in the past three years. That is 200%. |
| collar jobs in this country and the demise of the | | | | We recently talked to one company which builds Car |
| manufacturing sector. The system covers some 122 | | | | Washes and Quick Service Restaurants Franchise |
| million workers nationally, but it is regulated state by | | | | Tennant Improvements and C-Stores, who indicated |
| state, not nationally and there is nothing close to | | | | to us his workmen's compensation costs in Los |
| being a Federal Oversight on this, not that I or | | | | Angeles were running 110% of payroll? WOW. This is |
| anyone else cares to add another layer of | | | | serious, it is due to run away lawsuits, we need tort |
| bureaucracy to an already broken system. | | | | reform. |
| You can imagine the burden of the franchising | | | | This is one reason that Maurice "Hank"Greenberg of |
| community to provide jobs and the incredible | | | | AIG Insurance Groups said that Lawyers are |
| problems faced by franchisees. The average cost on | | | | Terrorists, this is why Elliot Spitzer targeted him |
| a national level has risen 50% in the last 3 years. This | | | | personally. Well, I could not agree more personally |
| means that the poor employer is stuck, do they hire | | | | and have never heard not one debatable comment |
| fewer people and assign more work, go out of | | | | from any one in the legal profession, which sues |
| business or cheat. Actually none of these options | | | | employers. |