Legal Issues
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The Division of Workers’ Compensation Takes a Novel Approach to Telemedicine and Telehealth Services in Response to the Novel Coronavirus—COVID-19
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Texas Department of Insurance,...
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WCDI Answers Your Coronavirus Claims Questions: Part II
Please join Bobby Stokes for Workers' Compensation Institute's "WCDI Answers Your Coronavirus...
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An Analysis of COVID-19 Orders and Bulletins [Updated]
Texas Workers’ Compensation system stakeholders have been deluged with emergency memos and...
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AP Reverses ALJ in Firefighter Presumption Case
The appeals panel has reversed a contested case hearing decision and order...
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Commissioner’s Bulletin # B-0019-20
April 10, 2020 To: All Texas workers’ compensation system participants Re: Coronavirus...
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Court Decides How Differing Procedural and Evidentiary Standards in Administrative Court Translate to District Court
The Austin Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision granting summary judgment...
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Court Holds: Late Filing Defense Must be Raised within a Reasonable Time
The Tyler Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision that granted partial...
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DWC Commissioner Hosted Insurance Carrier/Stakeholder Conference Call to Discuss COVID-19 Operations
Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Cassie Brown and senior members of her...
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An Analysis of COVID-19 Orders and Bulletins
Texas Workers’ Compensation system stakeholders have been deluged with emergency memos and...
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WCDI Tackles COVID-19 in Live-Stream Discussion Tomorrow
Join Steve Tipton Friday, March 27, 2020, in a one-hour live-streamed multi-state...
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Texas WC Commissioner Issues COVID-19 Bulletin
Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Cassie Brown has posted Bulletin No. B-0010-20 addressing...
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Stress in the Time of COVID
David Langham, a Florida workers’ comp judge, and a prolific blogger on...
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