Study: Nassau overpays on workers' compensation
Nassau County has overpaid for workers' compensation by $13 million since 2010, with one county employee in every eight now filing claims, according to a study by Nassau Comptroller George Maragos.
"The number of claims for job-related injuries has steadily climbed from one in forty . . . in 2002 to one in eight employees, on average, by 2011," Maragos said in a news release Thursday. Maragos...