Barrios v. Zing, LLC & State Ins Fund

EISMANN, Justice.

This is an appeal from the order of the Industrial Commission requiring an employer and its surety to pay the cost of a guardian and a conservator for a claimant who suffered a severe, traumatic brain injury as a result of an industrial accident, which left him unable to care for himself. We affirm the order of the Commission,

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Factual Background.

While employed by Zing LLC, Josué Barrios (“Claimant”) was totally and permanently disabled as a result of an industrial accident when he fell about twelve feet from a ladder and hit his head face first on a concrete floor. He…