Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Gomez

OPINION

FULLER, Justice.

In a workers’ compensation case, the jury returned a take nothing verdict for the insurance carrier. The trial court granted a motion to disregard certain jury answers and entered judgment for the worker, resulting in this appeal. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Appellee, Julio Gomez, suffered an on-the-job compensable injury to his left leg below the knee on December 6,1979, which resulted in surgery. The following year surgery was performed again in which a plate was inserted in the left leg. In 1985, Dr. Duke of Odessa, Texas, performed a third surgery on…