Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Gifford

OPINION

FARRIS, Justice.

This is an appeal of a worker’s compensation case in which the insurance carrier complains in two points of error of the trial court’s refusal to grant a continuance and order appellee to submit to psychiatric examination.

We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The parties agree on the relevant facts of this case. On July 31, 1984, appellee was raped and beaten by two men who came into her place of employment purportedly looking for employment. Appellee filed a claim for worker’s compensation benefits contending that her ordeal had caused a psychological injury which…