Amigos Meat Distributors, L.P. v. Guzman

OPINION

Sherry Radack, Chief Justice

This is an appeal from an award on a jury verdict in favor of an- employee against his non-workers’ compensation subscriber employer.

BACKGROUND

Appellee Julian Guzman went to work as a truck driver for appellant Amigos Meat Distributors in 2008. As part of his job, he had to lift and carry frozen animal carcasses. In May 2011, Guzman was injured lifting a 175-pound frozen cow carcass. He and his wife, appellee Catherine Monteja-no, sued Amigos, a worker’s compensation non-subscriber.

The jury found that Amigos’s negligence proximately caused Guzman’s injury,…