In addition to firing three executives Wednesday, the state's worker's compensation agency made several other personnel moves.

The changes, according to a statement from Workforce Safety and Insurance, were in response to a third-party review of the agency that was released last week.

Effective immediately, WSI will expand its medical case-management program, shifting three employees to its Medical Services Department. Two of those employees are the director of Premium Audit and Collections, and the person filling the Leadership and Organizational Excellence spot. They'll be joined by a third worker.

The statement said that switch would allow WSI to expend more resources assisting the severely injured, as well as further improve the agency's performance and relationship with treating physicians and medical practices.

Mark Armstrong, the agency's communications executive, will assume a non-executive role. For now, he'll report to general counsel Jodi Bjornson, who was also one of the WSI employees to file for "whistleblower" protection. All of the other whistleblowers - Todd Flanagan, Kay Grinsteinner, Jim Long and Billi Peltz - were fired.

Armstrong's duties will include providing responses to open-records requests, providing new employee training on workers' compensation, updating the agency's Web site and intranet content, and establishing an orientation program for board members. All future media inquiries will go through Bjornson.