DWC Repeals Expired, Invalid Rules

The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation repealed rules that have expired or that it says are no longer valid. The division repealed a rule that required the Industrial Accident Board to publish quarterly reports, saying the board no longer exists and the authority for the required report was repealed in 1989. Rules concerning informal and voluntary networks and medical disputes were also repealed. The division said in notices published in the Jan. 2 Texas State Register that the network rules expired in 2011, and the Court of Appeals in Austin declared the medical dispute rules inval...