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TITLE 28INSURANCE
PART 2TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE, DIVISION OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION
CHAPTER 102PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES--GENERAL PROVISIONS
RULE §102.7Abbreviations

When used in this title, the following terms may be abbreviated as follows:

  (1) Additional Lost Time - ALT;

  (2) Average Weekly Wage - AWW;

  (3) Benefit Review Conference - BRC;

  (4) Contested Case Hearing (also Benefit Contested Case Hearing) - CCH.

  (5) Death Benefits - DBs;

  (6) Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation - division or DWC;

  (7) Electronic Data Interchange - EDI

  (8) Health Care Provider - provider or HCP;

  (9) Impairment Income Benefits - IIBs;

  (10) Impairment Rating - IR;

  (11) Injured Employee - employee;

  (12) Insurance Carrier - carrier;

  (13) Lifetime Income Benefits - LIBs;

  (14) Maximum Medical Improvement - MMI;

  (15) Office of Injured Employee Counsel - OIEC;

  (16) Post Injury Earnings (also Weekly Earnings After the Injury) - PIE;

  (17) Required Medical Exam - RME;

  (18) Return to Work - RTW;

  (19) Supplemental Income Benefits - SIBs;

  (20) Temporary Income Benefits - TIBs;

  (21) Texas Workers' Compensation Act - the Act or the Statute; and

  (22) Texas Workers' Compensation Commission - TWCC or the Commission.


Source Note: The provisions of this §102.7 adopted to be effective August 29, 1999, 24 TexReg 6488; amended to be effective January 7, 2019, 44 TexReg 98

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