DURATION OF TEMPORARY INCOME BENEFITS
Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 401.001 to 419.007 (623 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Haggar Clothing Co. v. Hernandez (2005)
Most recently applied in Haggar Clothing Co. v. Hernandez (May 2005)
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) Temporary income benefits continue until the employee reaches maximum medical improvement.
(b) The commissioner by rule shall establish a presumption that maximum medical improvement has been reached based on a lack of medical improvement in the employee's condition.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.