Each package contains several rules on related claims services issues. The Claims Service Task Force, which made the rules development team recommendation to the Commissioners, was formed as a result of comments made at a public hearing last summer on proposed Commission Rules 154.1 through 154. Those rules are known as the claims service rules. Those proposed rules included a requirement for carriers to have a claims service plan and stipulated additional penalties and sanctions for failing to comply with the Texas Workers' Compensation Act and Commission rules. Commissioners select new ED search firm Commissioners at the May 8 public meeting appointed a new search firm, Lehman McLeskey of Austin, to help identify candidates for the Commission's executive director position.
Commissioners expect to choose a new executive director by late summer.
Commissioners also appointed Virginia A. May as the Commission's acting executive director. May, who joined the Commission in 1990, is director of the Commission's Self-Insurance Regulation Division. In other personnel news, Linda Farrow has joined the Commission as director of Administration, and Hope Teneyuque as associate director of Administration. Lisa Martin has been hired as associate director of Records. Martin has been appointed acting director of Records since the departure of Scott McAnally.