Ernest Claridy v. Texas Employers' Insurance Association

HALL, Justice.

Appellant Ernest Claridy sued appellee Texas Employers’ Insurance Association (TEIA) for benefits payable under the worker’s compensation law for total and permanent incapacity resulting from an injury he sustained on April 8, 1987 while in the course and scope of his employment with Flowers Construction Company. TEIA pleaded, among other defenses, that one or more prior or subsequent injuries contributed substantially to any incapacity now complained of by Claridy, “including, but not limited to, a compensable injury allegedly sustained by [Claridy] on or about July 16, 1987,…