Reportable Case?

 We spend time running down answers for issues. It'd be great to have that issue show up in a resources list to make time entries against. I've looked at creating related tasks for that purpose, but we keep that locked down so that only managers can do that. We also have a generic project that has a generic task for this purpose, but I'm trying to get out of that approach and into using the issues module. 

Thoughts? Suggestions?