Innovation Series
A six-part look at how Texas injury benefit programs deliver better outcomes for injured workers and lower costs for employers.
- Part 1 – Introduction
One of the best displays of Texas’ innovative spirit came in 1989 when the government-run system for injured workers was in complete meltdown.
- Part 2 – Employee Workers Compensation Advocacy
It could be your mother, your brother, your best friend or your child who gets hurt at work.
- Part 3 – Active Engagement
When workplace injuries happen, achieving the best medical outcomes requires “Employee Advocacy”, as discussed in Part 2 of this six-part series.
- Part 4 – Better Medical Outcomes
What is the top goal of workers’ compensation? Each state system, academics and commentators respond a bit differently.
- Part 5 – Improved Benefits
Nothing could deter Tim from taking care of the needs of his family…until he fell 12 feet from a ladder, could not work for three months, and lost the full…
- Part 6 – Lower Costs
Men and women processing farm grains at Morrison Milling, serving meals at Wyatt Cafeterias and doing transportation, retail, healthcare and other types of…