CITY WORKERS' COMP AUDIT DISPUTED.Byline: KERRY CAVANAUGH Staff Writer Concerned that a critical audit by Controller Laura Chick will hurt its reputation and bottom line, a workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. contractor has challenged findings that it provided lax oversight and slow service for police and city firefighters injured on the job. Cambridge Integrated Services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. Group Inc., which has a $7 million-a-year contract with the city that expires in June, has asked for a new audit, claiming the initial report was flawed and misleading. "It's not that any one particular task or item was botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. up; it's that the entire audit really does Warren Trotter, better known as Really Doe, is an American rapper from Chicago, Illinois. He is affiliated with Kanye West and his G.O.O.D. Music family and label. Discography Songs
Cambridge is unwilling to sue over the audit, but its owners have been trying to talk to members of the City Council and Personnel Department, which recently sought bids from competing firms to handle the police and fire workers' compensation cases. Chick said her office's review was accurate. "I stand by -- 100 percent -- the findings of my audit," she said. "No one likes to be audited. No one likes to be criticized or analyzed or picked apart, especially not publicly, and I work very hard to make my audit public because that's how change occurs." The audit, which was released in February, found that Cambridge's claims adjusters handled too many cases and that files were reviewed too infrequently and were insufficiently documented. Cambridge disputed those findings, saying they were skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data because the review was conducted by claims adjustors provided by a subcontractor One who takes a portion of a contract from the principal contractor or from another subcontractor. When an individual or a company is involved in a large-scale project, a contractor is often hired to see that the work is done. rather than by auditors. Chick said the audit was thorough and her office had approved the use of subcontractors with workers' compensation expertise to help conduct the review. kerry.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com (213) 978-0390 |
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