Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Cervantes

OPINION

CADENA, Chief Justice.

Defendant, Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, appeals from a judgment awarding plaintiff, Leopoldo S. Cervantes, compensation for permanent and total disability and ordering that such compensation be paid in a lump sum all in accordance with the jury findings.

Defendant’s brief contains 16 points of error. The first 11 points question the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support the finding of permanent and total disability and the finding that payment of compensation in weekly installments instead of a lump sum payment would result in manifest…