WCA Seeks Injured Workers to Serve on Attorney Fee Task Force

The New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration is looking for two injured workers who could serve on a task force lawmakers charged with studying the impact of attorney fees and attorney fee caps on the state’s system. The state House of Representatives in March unanimously approved House Memorial 83, by Rep. Pamelya Herndon, D-Bernalillo, which asks the WCA to convene an attorney fee task force by May 1. The memorial declares that information about the effect of attorney fees and fee caps on injured worker representation rates, the delivery of benefits and the...