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Workers’ Compensation

TCA pledges to conduct its business in a manner that preserves and promotes the health and safety of its workers by supporting:

• State workers' compensation systems that promote programs developed by free enterprise, be it through insurance carriers or self-insured programs.
• The use of incentives to help states make their benefit systems fair, equitable, and cost effective, as well as programs to reduce industrial accidents and lost time.
• The concept that any federal role should be limited to offering technical assistance to the states or conducting research.
• Enactment of state laws that provide trucking-beneficial uniformity and fairness, including legislation that allows motor carriers and their workers to agree that the law of a particular state shall govern any workers’ compensation claim.

Amended March 1, 2008