Stop-Loss Rule in 1997 Still Fueling Litigation

After 18 years of administrative decisions, court rulings and appeals-court reversals and remands, a dispute over hospital reimbursements for unusually extensive treatments of injured workers is headed for more litigation. It could take a few more years before a group of hospitals and more than 40 insurance carriers close what has become one of the most famous and expensive chapters in the Texas workers' compensation story: a set of cases that were consolidated into Vista Medical v. Texas Mutual Insurance Co. et al. “I expect it will go back to the appeals court at some point. I...