Continental Casualty Co. v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

STEVENS, Judge.

This opinion is limited to a very precise question: After the claimant sustained a compensable industrial injury, the claim therefor having been accepted with compensation and medical treatments being assumed by the carrier without a contest, the claimant was indicted for a federal felony, convicted after a jury trial and sentenced. He was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution at La Tuna, Texas. At the time of his departure for Texas the claimant was in need of continuing medical treatment and his condition was not yet stationary. Prior to the time of his…