Insurers, Businesses Asking for Help on Enforcement Action Rules

Just when some insurers and employers thought they'd caught a break on what they considered to be nitpicking rule enforcement by the Division of Workers' Compensation, proposed rules have left them asking for more specifics. "By merely restating the statute, the division is failing to comply with Senate Bill 1895," reads a public comment filed Monday by Austin attorney John Pringle, who represents businesses and physicians in enforcement actions by the division. "They essentially dropped the bill language into the rules, and nothing else, and that was not the inten...