Former Kansas Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell will receive more than $94,000 in a worker's compensation award for a back injury he suffered while taking his briefcase out of his car trunk. An insurance commissioner, Bell oversaw part of the state's worker's compensation system. The commissioner's physician also filed a claim, alleging that he suffered injuries from having to sit so often on a cramped witness stand, testifying in worker compensation cases.

Another former state employee—Robert A. Anderson, once director of the Worker's Compensation Division—accepted a $30,000 award for a back injury he sustained when reaching for a book in the State Supreme Court Law Library. Asked to name the cause of his injury, Anderson listed "stretching motion."

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