TDI Adopts Revisions to Classification System

The Texas Department of Insurance on Wednesday announced that it has adopted changes to its rules that replace state-specific phrases with multistate classifications used by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. For example, the Texas classification phraseologies for Code 0016, “farm — orchard and drivers” and “pecan harvesting and drivers” will be replaced with the multistate phraseologies “farm — orchard or grove and drivers” and “turpentine farm and drivers.” The department said the changes to NCCI’s Basic Manual ...