EVIDENCE
Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 401–419 (623 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. v. Allen (2000)
Most recently applied in Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund v. Texas Workers' Compensation Commission (December 2003)
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 administrative law judge is the sole judge of the relevance and materiality of the evidence offered and of the weight and credibility to be given to the evidence. Conformity to legal rules of evidence is not necessary.
(b) An administrative law judge may accept a written statement signed by a witness and shall accept all written reports signed by a health care provider.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.