Employers Who Carry Workers’ Compensation Insurance Workers’ compensation is a plan with good intentions. It allows those who are injured at work, or contract a work-related illness or condition, to collect for their medical expenses and a portion of their lost wages without having to prove their employer was negligent….
Houston Chronicle Columnist Patricia Kilday Hart reports how legislative “reforms” that favored insurance companies have gone too far. Delays in response to doctors’ recommendations led to the premature fatal condition of a Harrison County deputy sheriff who was injured in a high speed chase. Read this compelling article from the…
The 2011 Texas Supreme Court ruling, Texas Mutual vs. Ruttiger, states that injured workers no longer can seek damages against insurance companies who deny claims “in bad faith.” Since this ruling, denials to workers comp claims have skyrocketed while claimants’ efforts in desputing denials has fallen to a success rate of…
Texas Workers Compensation claimants took a big hit Friday when the Texas Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. Timothy J. Ruttiger. The Court held that Workers Comp claimants cannot seek damages for bad faith denials of claims outside the administrative Workers Comp regulatory…
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