{"id":31015,"date":"2026-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/?post_type=bulletin&#038;p=31015"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:49:51","slug":"texas-approves-new-workers-comp-class-code-for-clerical-telecommuters-effective-july-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"bulletin","link":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/bulletin\/texas-approves-new-workers-comp-class-code-for-clerical-telecommuters-effective-july-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Approves New Workers\u0092 Comp Class Code for Clerical Telecommuters, Effective July 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TX<\/strong>| <strong>Texas Department of Insurance<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdi.texas.gov\/rules\/2025\/documents\/20269844.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Commissioner&#8217;s Order No. 2026-9844<\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">approves NCCI Item B-1451, which amends the NCCI Basic Manual in Texas to establish workers\u0092 compensation classification code 8871 for <strong>clerical<\/strong> telecommuter employees whose duties are clerical, who telecommute at least 50% of the time, and whose employer\u0092s basic classification does not already include clerical employees,<\/span> initially assigning code 8871 the same loss costs and rating values as code 8810 until it develops its own experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Texas Department of Insurance gave public notice, received one supportive comment from Texas Mutual Insurance Company requesting broader use of 8871 for certain out-of-state telecommuters, and declined that recommendation to avoid inconsistency with standard exception classification rules and differing treatment of similar risks by state. The commissioner concludes TDI has jurisdiction, the amendments are consistent with Insurance Code Chapters 2051 and 2053 and Article 5.96, and orders that the changes apply to new and renewal policies <strong><em>effective on or after 12:01 a.m. July 1, 2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdi.texas.gov\/rules\/2025\/documents\/20269844.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to see TX Commissioner&#8217;s Order 2026-9844<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21560,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"department":[252],"state":[290],"class_list":["post-31015","bulletin","type-bulletin","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-department-of-insurance","state-texas"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin\/31015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bulletin"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin\/31015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31100,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin\/31015\/revisions\/31100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=31015"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=31015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}