Boma O. Allison v. Service Lloyds Insurance Company

OPINION

KEM THOMPSON FROST, Chief Justice.

This ease arises out of a dispute between a worker’s compensation insurance carrier and the employee-claimant’s attorney. The carrier asserted that it was entitled to receive the full amount of a settlement with a third party obtained by the claimant’s attorney, without paying the attorney any amount as attorney’s fees or expenses. The claimant’s attorney intervened, asserting various claims and requesting attorney’s fees and expenses under subsections (a) and (c) of Texas Labor Code section 417.003, which provides for the award of attorney’s fees to a…