Proposal Addresses Causation, Multiple Conditions In Workers Comp Claims

A bill presented to lawmakers in Texas on Wednesday aims to tackle the murky issue of causation in workers compensation.House Bill 233, sponsored by Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, calls for medical causation narrative reports to be paid for by insurers when they dispute a correlation between one condition and that which is directly related to the workplace injury. A medical causation report is “an original report created by a doctor that explains a causal connection, if any, between a compensable workplace injury and the diagnoses or conditions specified in the insurance carrier’s plain language notice disputing the extent of the injured employee’s compensable injury,” per the bill.