Texas Workers' Compensation Commission v. City of Bridge City

POWERS, Justice.

The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission, its executive director Todd Brown, and the Subsequent Injury Fund 1 appeal from a declaratory judgment and permanent injunction ordered by the trial court in a suit brought by the City of Bridge City, Texas, and the Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool (“TML”). We will reverse the trial-court judgment, dissolve the injunction, and render the declaratory judgment we believe the trial court should have rendered. Tex.R.App.P. 81(c).

THE CONTROVERSY

Under the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act, the legislature established a…