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Commissioner of Insurance Cassie Brown retired after more than
four years overseeing the Texas Department of Insurance. Governor Greg Abbott
appointed Amanda Crawford in her stead to oversee the department, for a term
set to expire on 2/1/27. Ms. Crawford was serving as the executive director of
the Department of Information Resources and is Texas’ chief information
officer. It remains to be seen if and how the change in leadership at TDI will
impact DWC since it is technically a division within the Department of
Insurance.
In ALJ news, Barham Richard has joined the DWC as a traveling Administrative
Law Judge based out of Austin. Mr. Richard has an extensive background serving
as legal counsel for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Lone Star
Legal Aid, and the Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel. He most recently
served as a Senior Staff Attorney for the Texas Medical Board. We are glad to
have him join us in the wonderful world of workers’ compensation!
Congratulations are also in order to Christina Figueroa, Sarah Hart, and Avery
Fortenberry, all of whom have been recently promoted from PROs to BROs. We look
forward to working with them all during our Benefit Review Conferences.
Change is also afoot in Lubbock, where the DWC is searching for a new home for
its offices and seems set on giving up its lovely quarters at 22 Briercroft
Office Park. For those who have never made the attempt, trying to locate
the Lubbock Field Office for the first time is something of a right-of-passage
hazing ritual among system participants, obscured as it is behind trees and
secreted away along the side of the building. Hopefully the new location
is a bit more conspicuous!
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