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Meet Your Regulator – With Vickie Kennedy of Washington L&I

18 Feb, 2022 WorkersCompensation.com

                               

Vickie Kennedy, Assistant Director of Insurance Services at Washington's Department of Labor and Industries, oversees all the workers' comp insurance operations as well as the self-insured programs within the state. She takes a few minutes with our host, Bob Wilson, to talk about her 50 years with the agency, as well as the vocational recovery and the future of the workers' compensation industry.

 

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