Rogers Electric Co. v. Kouba

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

Richard Kouba, an electrician, was injured at Prudhoe Bay in September 1975 when he slipped on a patch of ice and a cable he was installing fell across his chest. Being unable to work further on the North Slope, he returned to Texas. Dr. Arthur Glassman, an orthopedic surgeon in Houston, examined Kouba there and concluded that he had sprained ligaments in his lumbar spinal area. Dr. Glassman found at that time no objective signs of injury, but testified that sprains like Kouba’s often result in weakened and scarred ligaments. After several visits by Kouba, Dr.…