TEMPORARY INCOME BENEFITS
Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 401–419 (623 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Rodriguez v. Service Lloyds Insurance Co. (1999)
Most recently applied in State Office of Risk Mangement v. Linda Rodriguez (August 2011)
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) An employee is entitled to temporary income benefits if the employee has a disability and has not attained maximum medical improvement.
(b) On the initiation of compensation as provided by Section 409.021, the insurance carrier shall pay temporary income benefits as provided by this subchapter.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.