Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital v. Justice

COLLEY, Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case. Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital, defendant/appellant (Hospital), a self insurer under the worker’s compensation law, appeals from a judgment awarding Joseph Justice, plaintiff/appellee, compensation for 370 weeks of total temporary incapacity. We affirm.

The record shows that Justice, an employee of Hospital, suffered a heart attack while “buffing” the hall way of the hospital building on November 21, 1981. He was immediately hospitalized in Memorial Hospital, and in all was hospitalized for 30 days on three separate admissions to such…