PAYMENT OF BENEFITS UNDER INTERLOCUTORY ORDER
Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 401.001 to 419.007 (623 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Texas Workers' Compensation Commission The Subsequent Injury Fund And Leonard W. Riley, Jr. v. Continental Casualty Company (2002)
Most recently applied in In Re Texas Mutual Insurance Co. (February 2012)
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) The benefit review officer who presides at the benefit review conference shall consider a request for an interlocutory order and shall give the opposing party the opportunity to respond before issuing an interlocutory order.
(b) The interlocutory order may address the payment or suspension of accrued benefits, future benefits, or both accrued benefits and future benefits.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.