Bill Impacting WC Rate Filings Takes Effect Sept. 1

A bill that allows the Texas Insurance Department to keep proprietary and trade secret information in workers' compensation rate filings confidential is among several bills impacting the insurance industry that will take effect on Sept. 1, according to a bulletin issued by the department on Thursday. The department provided a list of 13 bills that passed during this year's session of the state Legislature in Commissioner's Bulletin B-0020-15. All of them take effect on either Sept. 1 or Jan. 1, but most impact property, wind storm and auto insurance, not workers' comp. Senate...