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Belcher v. T. Rowe Price Foundation Inc.3/25/1993
evious research studies have clearly established that the costs of the present workers' compensation system to Maryland employers are significantly increasing, and that Maryland is an expensive workers' compensation state. Comprehensive reform of Maryland's workers' compensation program is critical to achieving a modern, effective system that is both equitable and cost effective."
Id. at 1.
During its 1987 session, the General Assembly made substantial revisions to the Act. See Acts of 1987, chs. 590, 591. Among other things, Chapter 590 established a Workers' Compensation Benefit and Insurance Oversight Committee (the Oversight Committee). Acts of 1987, ch. 590, ยง 3. The Oversight Committee was charged with examining and evaluating "the condition of the workers' compensation benefit and insurance structure in Maryland" and the effects of the 1987 legislation. Id. The Oversight Committee must report by December 31 of each year to the Governor and the General Assembly. Id. It has done so. See Oversight Committee, Reports of the 1889, 1990, 1991, and 1992 Interim to the Governor and the Maryland General Assembly.
None of these studies expressly addresses the question of mental-mental claims, apparently because they have never been considered to be included in the Act and because there is no significant impetus to include them. Whether the Act should be expanded to include mental-mental claims requires an evaluation of costs and benefits to many interests that make up the economy of the entire State. It is, in my view, particularly inappropriate for this Court to decide that question in a case in which that issue need not be decided.
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