Texas Employers' Insurance Association v. United States

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

The panel held that the United States can recover from the Texas Employers’ Insurance Association the cost of medical services provided through a Veterans Administration hospital to an injured veteran-employee covered by the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Act, Texas Rev.Civ. Stat.Ann. arts. 8306-8309 (Vernon 1967). A companion case, United States v. Bender Welding & Machine Co., 558 F.2d 761 (5th Cir. 1977), allowed a similar recovery against an employer under the federal Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq.

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