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Latest Court Cases
In re Basic Energy Services, Inc.
The court granted summary judgment for the employer and liquidation trustee, disposing of all remaining claims. It held that tort claims arising from the work-related vehicle accident were barred by the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act’s exclusive-remedy scheme, and that the claimants failed to raise a fact issue that post-accident conduct
- Citation: 4:23-CV-02910
- Court: Southern Dist. Ct. - Texas
- Date:
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Brown
The Fourteenth Court of Appeals held that Exxon was entitled to judgment rendering take-nothing relief on certain damage awards and a new trial on others, while affirming that workers’ compensation exclusivity barred recovery for plaintiffs who were covered employees but not for the remaining plaintiffs who were not subscribers. The
- Citation: 14-24-00104-CV
- Court: 14th COA – Houston
- Date:
Marquis Construction Services, LLC v. Torres
The Corpus Christi–Edinburg Court of Appeals reversed the judgment for the employee in a Texas Labor Code § 451.001 workers’ compensation retaliation case, holding that venue was improper in Hidalgo County. The court concluded that none of the essential events giving rise to the retaliation claim, including the injury, the
- Citation: 13-23-00266-CV
- Court: 13th COA – Corpus Christi
- Date:
Fernandez v. Heartland Co-Op
The Amarillo Court of Appeals affirmed a no-evidence summary judgment in favor of the employer, holding that the exclusive-remedy provision of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act barred the wrongful-death claim absent proof of gross negligence. The court concluded there was no evidence that the employer acted with objective or subjective
- Citation: 07-24-00362-CV
- Court: 7th COA – Amarillo
- Date:
In re ExxonMobil Corp
The Fourteenth Court of Appeals (Houston) conditionally granted mandamus and ordered the trial court to vacate its order denying ExxonMobil’s summary judgment and instead grant summary judgment and dismiss all claims because the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act’s exclusive-remedy bar applied. ExxonMobil proved a written §406.123 agreement and that its OCIP
- Citation: 14-25-00446-CV
- Court: 14th COA – Houston
- Date:
Texas Military Department v. Lopez
The Corpus Christi–Edinburg Court of Appeals reversed the trial court’s denial of the Texas Military Department’s plea to the jurisdiction and rendered judgment dismissing the Lopezes’ tort suit for lack of jurisdiction, holding sovereign immunity was not waived under the Texas Tort Claims Act because the crash arose from “activities
- Citation: 13-25-00150-CV
- Court: 13th COA – Corpus Christi
- Date:
Latest AP Decisions
APD 252067
The Appeals Panel affirmed the ALJ’s determination that the compensable injury did not extend to left elbow medial or lateral epicondylitis or to left wrist/hand ulnar nerve compression or Guyon’s canal conditions, finding sufficient evidence to support those extent-of-injury findings. However, it reversed by striking the portion of the decision
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APD 251955
The Appeals Panel affirmed the ALJ’s determination that the compensable injury did not extend to lumbar ankylosing spondylitis. However, it reversed the ALJ’s finding that the first certification of maximum medical improvement and impairment rating became final, holding that a DRIS note was insufficient to establish delivery by verifiable means.
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APD 251917
The Appeals Panel reversed and remanded the ALJ’s decision finding a compensable occupational disease. While affirming that the firefighter cancer presumption under Government Code § 607.055 applied, the Panel held that the ALJ failed to make the specific findings and conclusions required by § 607.058(c) addressing whether a qualified expert,
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APD 251790
The Appeals Panel reversed and rendered the ALJ’s decision, holding that the claimant, a peace officer, did sustain a compensable injury in a motor vehicle accident. Applying Orozco v. County of El Paso, the Panel concluded that the claimant’s travel in an employer-provided patrol vehicle, after signing in with dispatch
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APD 251710
The Appeals Panel reversed and remanded the ALJ’s decision because the ALJ misstated the mechanism of injury—describing a fall over a drain instead of the actual electrocution while working on a powerline. Because this factual error affected the extent-of-injury determination, the Appeals Panel returned the case for a new decision
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APD 251691
The Appeals Panel affirmed the ALJ’s extent-of-injury findings and the correct disability period but reversed other portions of the decision. The Panel held that the ALJ exceeded the scope of the disability issue by awarding disability outside the agreed dates, and those portions were struck. The Panel also ruled that
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