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Tex. Lab. Code § 404.1015

REFUSAL TO PROVIDE OR TERMINATION OF SERVICES

Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act

The act spans §§ 401.001 to 419.007 (623 sections).

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1261 (H.B. 673), Sec. 1, eff

(a) The public counsel may refuse to provide or may terminate the services of the office to any claimant who:

(1) is abusive or violent to or who threatens any employee of the office;

(2) requests assistance in claiming benefits not provided by law; or

(3) commits or threatens to commit a criminal act in pursuit of a workers' compensation claim.

(b) If the public counsel determines under Subsection (a) that the services of the office should be refused or terminated, the office shall inform the affected claimant in writing and notify the division.

(c) The office shall notify and cooperate with the appropriate law enforcement authority and the Department of Insurance, Fraud Unit, if the office becomes aware that the claimant or a person acting on the claimant's behalf commits or threatens to commit a criminal act.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.