The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported it approved the initial application for a Certificate of Authority to Self-Insure for a one-year period by one private employer and the reapplications for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure for a one-year period by 17 private employers during a public meeting on Feb. 17.
Texas law allows certain large, private employers to have the option of self-insuring their workers’ compensation liabilities for worker injuries. Each of these employers must have a minimum workers’ compensation manual premium of $500,000 and meet other requirements to be approved as a Certified Self-Insurer in Texas.
The Commission’s Self-Insurance Program is the approved program in Texas that allows larger private employers to self-insure their workers’ compensation liabilities for worker injuries, while retaining the protection of workers’ compensation insurance coverage as provided for by the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act.
Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure were approved by the Commission for the following companies that employ a total of 49,984 workers in Texas. The companies are listed with the city and state of the company headquarters:
路Unique Staff Leasing I, Ltd., Corpus Christi, Texas
路FedEx Freight East, Inc., Harrison, Ark.
路International Paper Company, Memphis, Tenn.
路Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc., Mooresville, N.C.
路Emerson Electric Co., St. Louis, Mo.
路Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich.
路Watkins Associated Industries, Inc., Lakeland, Fla.
路Valero Energy Corporation, San Antonio, Texas
路Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, Portland, Ore.
路Textron, Inc., Providence, R.I.
路Weyerhaeuser Company, Federal Way, Wash.
路The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio
路Ascension Health, St. Louis, Mo.
路Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
路Mount Vernon Mills, Inc., Mauldin, S.C.
路PACCAR Inc, Bellevue, Wash
路Ameron International Corporation, Pasadena, Calif.
路Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Houston, Texas
For more information on applying to the TWCC Self-Insurance Program, visit the Commission’s Web site at: under “About the Commission.”
Topics Texas Workers' Compensation
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