Panelists Expect Mandatory Comp for Construction to Get more Attention

AUSTIN, Texas – Mandatory workers’ compensation in Texas for the construction industry may not be around the corner, but the executive director of the Texas Self-Insurance Association believes the state’s 2015 Legislature will take some form of action to address the state’s half million employees without workers’ comp protection. Serving on a five-member panel to discuss hot-button issues at the Insurance Council of Texas’ 2014 Workers’ Compensation Conference, Sam McMurry told attendees and fellow panelists that he expects the notion of a workers&rsq...