About The Alliance
Texas political subdivisions have the opportunity to create cooperative relationships with health care providers in workers’ compensation due to changes in the law in 2005. Those changes provide an alternative to the traditional statutory scheme and allow political subdivisions to directly contract with providers for treatment of public employees who are injured on the job. This Political Subdivision Workers’ Compensation Alliance direct-contracting program is designed to be a cooperative relationship, and we encourage dialogue on issues that arise in the medical treatment of public employees injured on the job.
The contract (Agreement) between a political subdivision or an intergovernmental risk pool and a provider will define many of the administrative and medical management aspects of treatment of injured workers within the broader framework of the Labor Code provisions and adopted rules that apply to workers’ compensation generally, and those that apply to political subdivisions specifically.
The Alliance anticipates that a number of long-term benefits are available to participating providers and to taxpayer-funded political subdivisions through participation in this initiative. As instrumentalities of local government, the Pools participating in the Alliance are not motivated by profit, rather the Pools’ goal is to provide quality medical care to their public employees without spending unnecessary public dollars and under terms agreeable to the quality providers sought by the Alliance.
Alliance Members
Collectively, these Pools provide workers’ compensation benefits to almost 3000 public employers including public schools; junior colleges; counties; cities; hospital, water districts; river authorities; community mental health mental retardation centers, and over 500,000 public employees.
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Texas Association of Counties
For more than 25 years, Counties have been banding together through the Texas Association of Counties to self-insure against a broad range of liabilities. Owned and managed by counties, these programs through the years have saved Texas taxpayers millions of dollars and grown into a stable, sustainable resource of protection. In addition to rates below the commercial market, TAC's loss control programs work for our counties to help curb rising insurance costs. As a non-profit organization, our goals with these coverage's are to provide counties and other related entities with what they need—reliable protection, responsive service, and effective loss control. |
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Texas Association of School Boards Risk Management Fund
The TASB Risk Management Fund serves Texas school districts and other local governments by providing innovative, high quality, financially sound, competitive risk management services in support of TASB's mission to promote educational excellence for Texas schoolchildren.
The Texas Association of School Boards Risk Management Fund (The Fund) is a self-insurance risk pool serving Texas school districts, community colleges, education service centers, and county appraisal districts. The Fund has been in existence since 1974 and provides Workers' Compensation, Property, Liability and Unemployment Compensation coverage to more than 1100 members. The Fund is NOT an insurance company. Rather, the Fund is a risk-sharing pool, in which members collectively self-insure their exposures through an Interlocal participation agreement. The Fund is governed by a 19 member Board of Trustees and contracts with the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) for management and operation of its programs. |
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Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool
The mission of the Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool is to provide Texas municipalities and other units of local government with a stable source of risk financing and loss prevention services at the lowest cost consistent with sound business practices.
The Pool's programs are built with the members' goals and needs in mind. As the mission statement is the Pool's foundation, the following objectives are its building blocks:
provide a stable risk financing system, educate members about avoiding and reducing risks, control losses with effective legal defense and claims handling, and serve as an expert source of information on risk management for cities, other units of local government and the Texas Municipal League.
The Pool is an interlocal agency offering workers' compensation, liability, and property protection to Texas political subdivisions including: Airport Authorities, Cities, Conservation & Reclamation Districts, Councils of Government, Drainage Districts, Fire Districts / Emergency Service Districts, Flood Control Districts, Hospital Districts, Housing Authorities, Downtown Management & Improvement Districts,
Mental Health / Mental Retardation Agencies, Municipal Utility Districts, Navigation Districts, Public Library Districts, Public Utility Boards, River Authorities, Tax Appraisal Districts, Transit Authorities, Water & Irrigation Districts, and 911 Districts. |
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Texas Council Risk Management Fund
The Texas Council Risk Management Fund is a self-insurance pool formed by Texas community MHMR centers to provide a comprehensive program of self-insurance for member centers. Through this program, community centers pool their risks and combine resources to obtain greater stability and economies of scale for risk management. The Fund exists solely to provide coverage protection and risk management services for its members. Its objectives are to provide long-term stability in coverage, attain lower costs, develop improved risk management practices, and allow its members more control over their management of risk.
The Fund was created in 1988 under the sponsorship of the Texas Council of Community MHMR Centers, Inc. The Fund provides workers’ compensation, liability, and property coverage programs. In addition to self-insurance coverage, member centers receive risk management services tailored to meet their unique needs. Services designed to prevent losses and contain costs are cornerstones of the Fund. These include liability workshops, legal consultation, risk management assessments, and specialized training.
Membership in the Fund represents the diversity of the state. It includes small community MHMR centers in predominantly rural areas as well as centers located in large urban areas. Some member centers serve a single county, and others serve very large multi-county areas. |
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Texas Water Conservation Association Risk Management Fund
The Texas Water Conservation Association Risk Management Fund was created by Texas water districts and authorities to provide self-insurance and risk management services for the Fund’s members. The sole purpose of the Fund is to provide coverage protection for its member water districts and authorities. Four types of basic coverage are available: workers’ compensation, liability, property, and group benefits.
The Fund is a self-insurance pool created under Texas law through interlocal agreements among water districts and authorities and the Fund. In addition to self-insurance coverage, member districts and authorities receive risk management, legal, and loss prevention services designed to meet the unique needs of water entities in Texas. The Fund was created in 1988 under the sponsorship of the Texas Water Conservation Association. As a member-owned and governed program, the Fund is uniquely positioned to understand and respond to changes in members’ operating environment.
Membership in the Fund includes river authorities, municipal water districts and authorities, municipal utility districts, water control and improvement districts, groundwater conservation districts, port authorities, navigation districts, irrigation districts, and drainage districts. Loss prevention is a high priority for the Fund. This is reflected in the broad range of services, including surveys and consultations, risk management assessments, specialized training, and other loss prevention resources provided to members. |
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