Legal Opinion
Continental Casualty Co. v. Downs
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 6, 2002No. 00-1309PublishedCited by 219 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hankinson
in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice ENOCH, Justice BAKER, and Justice O’NEILL joined.
In this cause we interpret provisions of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act) governing when a workers’ compensation carrier must notify a claimant that the carrier is refusing to pay benefits. See Tex. Lab.Code §§ 409.021, 409.022. The district court granted summary judgment for the carrier on the basis that it had timely contested compensability even though it had not timely notified the claimant that it was refusing to pay benefits. The court of appeals reversed and rendered judgment for the…
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