Fuentes v. Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n

OPINION

ESQUIVEL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a granting of a motion for summary judgment and the entering of a take-nothing judgment against a worker in his cause of action against the worker’s compensation insurance carrier wherein the worker alleged a statutory cause of action, i.e.: an alleged violation of the TEX.INS.CODE ANN. art. 21.21 (Unfair Insurance Practices) and, in the alternative, a common law cause of action, i.e.: alleged unfair/bad faith settlement practices, by the carrier in its process of the worker’s claim for compensation benefits due to an on the job injury because…