National Union Fire Insurance Co. v. Janes

OPINION

SCHULTE, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case appeal taken from a judgment based on a six member jury verdict in the Ector County Court at Law. The jury found a forty percent permanent partial loss of use of Appellee’s right leg. The event complained of occurred due to the breaking of a temporary compression plate on the leg, placed there following a prior injury. We reverse and remand.

Appellee, Jerry Dean Janes, was first injured in February, 1981, in Mattoon, Illinois, while demonstrating snowmobiles for his then employer, Mattoon Lawn & Leisure. As a result of the accident,…