Travelers Insurance Company v. Hill

This is a suit to mature a workmen’s compensation award under Article 8307, Sec. 5a, Vernon’s Annotated Texas Civil Statutes, which provides that when the Industrial Accident Board enters an award requiring the insurance carrier to make weekly or monthly payments to an injured employee and the carrier thereafter fails or refuses, “without justifiable cause” to continue to make such payments promptly, the injured employee may bring suit to mature the award; that is, collect the full amount thereof, plus attorney’s fees and recover a twelve percent penalty.

Judgment in the district court was for…