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Problems With Texas' Workers Comp System

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Posted by Staff WriterJune 15, 2006 9:12 AM

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A story from Dalas-Ft.Worth's WFAA-TV details the problems of Texas' workers compensation system through the eyes of two injured workers, Robert Frederick and Frankie Dutcher. Frederick suffers from a back injury he sustained while working as an auto mechanic four years ago, while Dutcher suffers from serious side-effects of exposure to hamful chemicals while working as a power-line repairman in 1996.

Both men's hopes are pinned on sweeping reforms adopted by the Texas Legislature last year. Lawmakers abolished the old workers' comp commission and handed over operations to the Texas Department of Insurance.
"This is a new agency with a new approach, with a new culture," said Albert Betts, the state's Commissioner of Workers' Compensation. "We're still, for all intents and purposes, in the baby stages of getting up and running."

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Posted by Rey Castillo
June 14, 2007 1:37 AM

I have had problems with workers compensation as well. We, the injured and suffering from workers compensation, should somehow all ban together and get rid of these congressmen and point blame on all of those individuals who have done this process to the american workers. They should forevermore be remembered as those greedy individuals who try to hurt and have hurt americans. Let me know what I can do to help.

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