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Workers’ comp privatization may be challenged in court

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From NewsOK:

Selling the state agency that provides workers’ compensation insurance could result in a long legal challenge, a former Oklahoma attorney general warned a legislative panel Wednesday.

The sale of CompSource Oklahoma to a private insurance carrier probably would be challenged in court with the ruling eventually appealed to the state Supreme Court, said Larry Derryberry,who served as Oklahoma’s attorney general from 1971-79 and whose practice includes insurance defense.

“We could be in a morass for two or three or five years,” Derryberry said.

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