The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry releases a quarterly publication called Compact. The February edition of Compact can be found here.

Some of the highlights include:

• A work comp brochure and other reports updated and online;
• Sviggum presents work comp reform recommendations to advisory council;
• Reminder concerning filing medical, rehabilitation requests and responses;
• Decrease in workers’ compensation costs over the last three years;
• 2009 Workers’ Compensation Symposium April 6, April 24 and April 30 – 8 a.m. to 1 p.m:  medical bill submission, review, payment and dispute resolution in light of Buck-Ulrick and Lehto.

MN DOLI also releases a quarterly summary of the WCCA decisions which can also be found here. The summarized decisions are from October 2008 to December of 2008.