This was not a mistake. It was an act of simple corporate greed. As a result, for every worker injured prior to 1989, July of 1999 is the cut-off date for their workers' compensation check. What this means is that sometime around July 1st of 1999 insurance companies will simply stop paying workers compensation benefits to anyone injured ten years or more ago. Very little likelihood of a legitimate court challenge.
Nobody knows for sure.
Come the first day of the Millennium, expect 10,000 ti 30,000 disabled Louisiana workers to be added to the poverty rolls. Expect to add another 2,000 to 5,000 injured workers to those poverty rolls each year thereafter. These are workers with serious injuries who have been out of the labor market for a decade or more. By and large they will be in their fifties or sixties. Their education and work experience will be nearly a generation out of date.