JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ISSUES REGARDING COMPENSABILITY OR INCOME OR DEATH BENEFITS
Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 401–419 (623 sections).
Applied in 34 court decisions — leading case Texas Workers' Compensation Commission v. Garcia (1995)
Most recently applied in Unique Staff Leasing, Ltd., Self-Insured v. Kenley Cates, as Beneficiary of Kody Ryan Cates (July 2016)
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) Judicial review of a final decision of the appeals panel regarding compensability or eligibility for or the amount of income or death benefits shall be conducted as provided by this subchapter.
(b) A determination of benefits before a court shall be in accordance with this subtitle.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.