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| The committee will meet to take up the following: |
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| Interim Charge 10: Study the adequacy of workers’ compensation benefits |
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| in the following categories: lifetime income benefits, wage benefits for |
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| the high wage earner, and workers whose wage benefits stop before Social |
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| Security benefits begin. In order to determine the impact of increased |
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| benefits in one or more of these categories, work with the Texas |
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| Department of Insurance to develop a publicly accessible model to predict |
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| the costs related to those enhanced benefits, the effect of those costs on |
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| workers’ compensation premiums, and whether enrollment in the workers’ |
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| compensation system will be adversely impacted by increasing the benefits |
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| in one or more of the stated categories. |
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| Interim Charge 11: Study whether subrogation claims by writers of |
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| workers’ compensation policies should be limited or prohibited. Study the |
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| effect on workers’ compensation premiums, if any, if subrogation claims by |
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| writers of workers’ compensation policies are limited or prohibited. |
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| Consider the feasibility of developing a publicly accessible model to |
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| predict the impact on workers’ compensation premiums, if any, if |
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| subrogation claims by writers of workers’ compensation policies are |
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| limited or prohibited, while protecting confidentiality as required by law |
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| and study whether the impact on workers’ compensation premiums, if any, |
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| would adversely impact enrollment in the workers’ compensation system. |
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| *Public testimony will be limited to 3 minutes per person. |
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| **If submitting written testimony, please provide 30 copies to committee |
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| staff prior to testifying. |
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