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Texas injury benefit market fast facts.

Key indicators on workforce coverage, claim resolution, insurance participation, and Texas economic development.

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Most important company asset

  • Workers

Workers covered

  • 1.3M workers covered by TX injury benefit plans
  • More than 22 state workers' comp systems cover fewer workers than TX injury benefit plans
  • 95% of TX workers covered by workers' comp or injury benefit plans (comparable to other states)

Employer negligence liability exposure supports

  • Job training and safety
  • Employee advocacy
  • Voluntary payment of injury benefits
  • Focus on better medical outcomes and return to work

Substantial claim volume

  • 50K injury claims successfully resolved annually with "full & fair review" under well-established employee benefit laws
  • Over one million Texas injury claims successfully resolved
  • Provided injured workers with outstanding medical outcomes and continued paychecks

Large settlements & judgments

  • Over 100 injury program settlements & judgments of $1M or more (highest $22M)

Significant insurance market

  • 12+ leading national insurers and claim payers supporting Texas injury benefit programs
  • More than $1 billion in direct written premiums over the past decade.

Economic development

  • Texas Governors and agency heads say this competitive market has contributed to Texas adding almost 2M private-sector jobs in the last decade
  • Returned workers to their families and jobs fast
  • Generated billions of dollars in cost savings and economic development for Texas
  • Approximately 1,000 Texas employees currently work in the private sector on nonsubscriber injury program development, administration and insurance
  • Helped make Texas the best place to do business and raise a family
  • Minimal state regulatory expense

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