Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed workers' compensation reformlegislation into law in several ceremonies throughout the statelast week. The reforms include the creation of managed-care likenetworks to provide medical care, instead of the previous systemwhere workers chose their own doctors.
Joe Woods, regional manager for the Property Casualty InsurersAssociation of America, said the legislation contains manyprovisions that will help control medical costs. “The networkapproach will result in quality care at a reasonable cost and willreturn employees to work in a reasonable amount of time.”
Injured workers will also see caps on weekly benefits increasedby 12 percent. In addition, the newly created Office of InjuredEmployee Counsel will represent injured workers in rulemakingprocedures and certain court actions, as well as help guide themthrough dispute resolution in complicated cases.
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