Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Haunschild

REYNOLDS, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation case the trial court, after disregarding jury findings that a prior compensable general injury contributed sixty-five percent to the workmen’s incapacity following the general injury in suit, entered judgment awarding full compensation for the present incapacity. The sole question presented is whether, after the 1971 amendment to the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Act, the insurance carrier’s liability for a general injury incapacity is still reduced by the percentage of incapacity contributed by a prior com-pensable general injury. We hold that…