More than 30% of initial benefit payments are not sent out on time in New Mexico, but the state’s Workers’ Compensation Administration says the numbers in insurer scorecards posted on its website are not necessarily accurate because of data-entry errors.
According to the insurer scorecard for calendar year 2015, 1,188 of 3,883 initial benefit payments for temporary or permanent total disability were late. The New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Act requires that benefit payments be sent within 14 days after a person has missed more than seven days of work because of an inj...
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