Workers Compensation Administration
The Workers' Compensation Administration (WCA) is a cabinet-level agency created by the New Mexico legislature in 1986 to administer the Workers' Compensation Act and the Occupational Disease Disablement Law. The mission of the Agency is: "To assure the quick and efficient delivery of indemnity and medical benefits to injured workers at a reasonable cost to employers."
Workers' compensation is a system of insurance that protects workers and employers from some of the losses caused by on-the-job accidents and job-related illnesses. New Mexico is a commercial / competitive insurance state. The WCA was created to ensure timely benefits and control costs by balancing the competing interests of its customer groups while fulfilling the requirements of the act.
The WCA's three main service processes are:
- Education, Information and Assistance: providing free education, seminars, safety consultation, business outreach, publications, internet, and Ombudsman program;
- Regulation: enforcement of the Act to ensure compliance is met through
employers having insurance coverage, prevention of fraud and bad acts, medical cost containment, and data reporting requirements; and, - Dispute Resolution: a court system to provide all customers and stakeholders legal remedy within the Workers' Compensation Act in the event of a dispute.
To accomplish these functions, the WCA has 134 FTE positions in offices located in Albuquerque, Farmington, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Lovington,
Roswell and Santa Fe.
The vision of the Administration is: "One team, one goal: A better New Mexico for workers and employers."
