Morales v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

The Texas Workers’ Compensation Act provides alternative avenues for judicial review of a Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission appeals panel decision depending upon whether the nature of the dispute regards “compensability or eligibility for ... benefits” or something else. See Tex. Lab.Code §§ 410.252, 410.301, 410.255; Tex. Gov’t Code §§ 2001.171-178. In this case, Margarita Morales seeks review of an appeals panel’s decision that her deceased husband was an independent contractor rather than an employee of one of three companies, two of which were workers’ compensation insurance…