Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Perez

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

Texas Employers’ Insurance Association appeals from a judgment awarding workers’ compensation benefits. The central issue is whether disfigurement to a worker’s torso is a specific injury, for which a percentage of incapacity should be determined under Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann., art. 8306, sec. 12 (Vernon Supp. 1984), or a general injury, for which loss of earning capacity should be found under art. 8306, see. 11.

Appellee, Juan Perez, was injured at his workplace on November 18, 1980, when molten plastic splashed onto his left forearm and chest. By the time of trial the…