Continental Casualty Co. v. Williamson

HOLCOMB, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case, in which the insurance carrier, Continental Casualty Company (“Continental”), appealed two Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (“Commission”) decisions that the claimant, Claude E. Williamson (“Williamson”), suffered a compensable injury as a matter of law. The two appeals were consolidated, and the trial was to the district court on an agreed statement of facts. The trial court affirmed the Commission’s decision, and Continental timely filed this appeal. The issue before us is whether an employer’s failure to contest compensability,…