Director, State Employees Workers' Compensation Division v. Bass

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a workers compensation case involving a state employee and construing TEX.REV.CIV.STAT.ANN. art. 8309g, sec. 12(a) (Vernon Supp.1985).

Roland Bass was injured on June 7, 1983, while working as a game warden for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The jury found Mr. Bass had suffered an on-the-job injury which was a producing cause of total and permanent incapacity as of the date of the injury. The jury further found that he had incurred past medical expenses in the amount of $8,912.00. As a result of the jury’s findings, the trial court…