Texas Work Comp News

The latest news about workers compensation in Texas.
- The Texas Department of Insurance adopted NCCI Item R-1422 — Revisions to the Retrospective Rating Plan Manual Rule Related to the Tax Multiplier. The filing updates information related to state…
- The Texas Department of Insurance’s Division of Workers’ Compensation released its annual report on Texas workplace injury and illness rates. DWC gathers statistical data on nonfatal injuries and illnesses from…
- A Texas appellate court ruled that a suit against a nonsubscribing employer constitutes "an action to collect workers' compensation benefits under the workers' compensation law” for purposes of designating a…
- The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation announced the adoption of revised and new death benefit rules, an audit plan for prescriptions of gabapentin or pregabalin with opioids and released its annual…
- A law firm challenging the validity of the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation rules about eligibility for supplemental income benefits said assertions that the agency is making in legal filings…
- Attorneys are asking the Texas Supreme Court to decide whether the Division of Workers’ Compensation is violating the law by awarding supplemental income benefits to some injured workers who didn’t…
- The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a federal jury in Texas convicted a doctor and the owners of a pharmacy of participating in a scheme that netted $90 million…
- The National Council on Compensation Insurance filed Item 02-TX-2023 — Revisions to NCCI’s Basic Manual for Texas for Classifications and Table of Classifications by Hazard Group — with the Texas…
- The Texas Department of Insurance will hold a virtual stakeholder meeting on projected rates for insurance maintenance taxes and exam assessments at 11 a.m. on Nov. 30. The projected rates will…
- The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation seeks comments on an informal working draft of amendments to 28 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 166 to improve the process that insurance companies use to…
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