New Mexico Rule Change to Shorten UEF Claims Process

New Mexico’s Workers’ Compensation Administration (WCA) is amending its rules to add Uninsured Employers’ Fund (UEF) eligibility determination into the mediation process in a pilot program that seeks to speed up the processing of claims to the fund.New Mexico has used a two-part system to determine benefit eligibility. The department says both parts are “fairly lengthy” procedures. The first part determines eligibility for benefits and covers both the benefits, if any, to which the worker is entitled and confirms whether or not the employer had insurance at the ti...