Texas Windstorm Insurance

March 7, 2009

While the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) may have been intended as a residual provider, it has become anything but that. Its unrealistically low rates have made TWIA an unbeatable competitor and are crowding out the private market.

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The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. This week the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with the novel concept that members of Congress must show up for work to do their jobs. In...

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The Lone Star State Model for Helping Injured Workers

Many states have attempted in recent years to fix the glaring flaws of their workers’ compensation systems. Texas implemented perhaps the most successful of these reforms; its success relative to the rest of the country can largely be ascribed to the fact that it is the only state with a thriving private sector work-injury benefit option to state-mandated workers’ compensation programs.

March 21, 2017

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DOL moves toward a takeover of state workers’ compensation systems

No one seems to be concerned about workers, except employers. The federal government’s assault on Texas’ private injured workers benefit market and its expansion to other states represents a major threat to liberty and to the health of injured workers.

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