Workers' Compensation Commission cites CompHub transition, staffing gaps and concerns with Uninsured Employers Fund

Micah Richardson, a budget analyst at the Department of Legislative Services, told the Public Safety and Administration Subcommittee that the Workers' Compensation Commission's (WCC) fiscal 2026 allowance increases slightly but reflects the completion of a major IT modernization and ongoing staffing and fund‑management questions.

The WCC's fiscal 2026 budget “increases by around $656,000 compared [with fiscal 25],” Richardson said during his presentation, and he identified a roughly $1.6 million increase in salaries tied to prior cost‑of‑living adjustments. He noted the CompHub enterprise modernization project—finished in December 2024—was the largest single IT effort for the agency and reduced the agency's technology appropriation by about $2.5 million in the allowance after a total project cost of $23.9 million.

The CompHub rollout has produced scheduling and workflow changes that the commission and analysts said are still settling out. "For the last 6 months, we have noticed that the number of cases awaiting hearing, what we call our pending caseload, is very low. Very low, in fact," Maureen Quinn, chair of the Workers' Compensation Commission, told the subcommittee. Quinn said the commission is still assessing how the…