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State laws in both Oklahoma and Texas allow employers to opt out of workers' compensation and develop their own workplace injury plans. Those plans generally cover fewer injuries, cut off benefits ...

AUSTIN (AP) --The House Business and Industry Committee approved a bill by Rep. Helen Giddings, D-DeSoto, on Tuesday that would change the language of the workers' compensation law to more clearly ...

The Texas Legislature enacted the Texas Workers' Compensation Act in 1913 in response to the needs of workers who were being denied recoveries in escalating numbers of industrial accidents in Texas.

AUSTIN — Lubbock's state legislators hope a pair of bills filed last month will bring relief to Texas first responders facing the unthinkable. The Matt Dawson Act, filed as Senate Bill 1033 by Sen.

The question of who provides workers’ compensation insurance in employer–staffing company relationships is handled in different ways. Frequently, the staffing company will provide workers’ ...

Fixing employees' bad backs, sore knees and other work-related injuries costs Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby three times as much in Oklahoma as it does in Texas or Arkansas. Employers who do business ...