Pearce v. Texas Employers Insurance Association

BATEMAN, Justice.

This workmen’s compensation case presents the narrow question of whether an agreement for compromise settlement of a claim under the Act, which specifically provides that it includes liability of the insurer for future medical aid, hospital services, nursing, chiropractic services, and medicines incurred after date of approval of the settlement by the Industrial Accident Board, precludes the employee from subsequently claiming and recovering medical expenses necessarily incurred by him in connection with a recurrence of the physical disability made the subject of the original…