TAB Head: State Must Combat WC Fraud

Bill Hammond, CEO at the Texas Association of Business, is pushing back on critics of an arrangement between Texas Mutual Insurance Company and the Travis County District Attorney’s office.

I recall some dark days in Texas, when employers and employees faced a workers’ compensation system that failed to deliver the coverage, protections and access to quality care we all deserved.

That’s why I’m disappointed with a series of ill-informed news articles that have painted in a negative light the very successful fraud-fighting efforts in the workers’ compensation system, and in particular, a Travis County prosecution unit funded, at the direction of Texas lawmakers, by Texas Mutual Insurance.

If the prosecutor acts independently, and no one is claiming that she does not, what is the issue here? Isn’t the serious nature of workers’ compensation fraud important enough to prosecute, no matter what the source of funding for the prosecution?