Study Confirms Higher Wage Earners Get Less Income Replaced

By Bill Kidd, Central Bureau ChiefStakeholders are busy digesting the data in a new report on the adequacy of income benefits in the Texas workers’ compensation system – but a preliminary consensus is that the document will prompt discussions in the coming legislative session on improving payments to higher-wage earners.The Department of Insurance Workers' Compensation Research and Evaluation Group released its report Wednesday.The group conducted the study in response to a directive by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. The goal of the study was to determine how much income replacement ...