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  • After Sunset

    By Elise Hu

    Sunset Advisory Commissioners unanimously approved a series of changes to the troubled Division of Workers' Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance on Tuesday, but not before aggressively rewriting the Sunset staff's original recommendations to improve the division's medical quality review process. Full Story 

  • Sunset Grill

    By Elise Hu

    Physician fraud investigators inside the troubled Division of Workers' Compensation say state examiners failed to uncover serious problems there — and then recommended changes that would take key decisions away from trained physicians and give them to bureaucrats. Full Story 

    Division of Workers' Compensation Commissioner Rod Bordelon and the Sunset Advisory Commission, May 26, 2010.
    Credit: Justin Dehn/Todd Wiseman

  • Here Comes the Sun

    By Elise Hu

    The state Division of Workers' Compensation has uncovered "tens of millions of dollars in unnecessary medical care" in the last several years, but its commissioner failed to sanction the doctors involved, a key former employee told members of the Sunset Advisory Commission on Tuesday night. Full Story 

  • Workers' Comp Before Sunset

    By Elise Hu

    The stakeholders in the roiling controversy over enforcement problems at the Division of Workers' Comp testify before state lawmakers on the Sunset Advisory Commission Tuesday night. Full Story 

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  • Workers' Comp: What's Next?

    By Elise Hu

    Lawmakers are pledging to take a closer look at the Texas Department of Insurance’s Division of Workers' Compensation in light of allegations by former employees that their higher-ups failed to sanction or remove dozens of doctors accused of overmedicating patients and overbilling insurers. The chairman of the House panel that oversees workers' compensation says he's planning a hearing on the matter this summer, and the chair of the Sunset Advisory Commission plans to question the division's commissioner at a public hearing next week. Full Story 

    Joe Deshotel, Rod Bordelon, Glenn Hegar
    Credit: Graphic by Bob Daemmrich, Caleb Miller

  • Heir Apparent

    By Emily Ramshaw

    State Rep. Terri Hodge, D-Dallas, dropped her reelection bid on Wednesday to plead guilty to lying on a tax return. But it's too early for Eric Johnson, her West Dallas-born, Ivy League-educated primary opponent, to claim victory. Full Story 

    Democrat Eric Johnson campaigns to replace incumbent Dallas Rep. Terri Hodge in House District 100. Hodge has pleaded guilty to lying on her tax return.
    Credit: Eric Johnson campaign

  • Seat Warmers?

    By Emily Ramshaw

    Dallas County Republicans are jockeying for a chance to topple two freshman Democrats who seized House districts in 2008. The incumbent Dems — hoping to claim their first House majority in eight years — are girding for battle. Full Story 

    Rep. Carol Kent, D-Dallas, and Rep. Robert Miklos, D-Mesquite
    Credit: reelectcarolkent.com, myspace.com

  • TribBlog: Sunset's Up

    By Ross Ramsey

    House Speaker Joe Straus' picks for the legislative committee that says whether the state should kill or keep state agencies: Reps. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, and Byron Cook, R-Corsicana. San Antonio attorney Lamont Jefferson, who's with the Haynes and Boone law firm, will serve as the House's public member. Full Story