Travelers Indemnity Co. of Illinois v. Fuller

OPINION

In this case we must decide whether Article 16, Section 26 of the Texas Constitution creates an independent cause of action for punitive damages where no cause of action for compensatory damages otherwise exists. Because the Workers’ Compensation Act bars Regina Fuller’s cause of action for compensatory damages, and because we find that Article 16, Section 26 was not intended to abrogate the common law requirement of “actual damages,” we reverse the judgment of the court of appeals and render judgment that Fuller take nothing.

Regina Fuller sued Travelers Indemnity Company of Illinois…