Lawrence v. CDB Services, Inc.

Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, Justice ABBOTT, and Justice HANKINSON.

In these consolidated cases, employees of nonsubscribers to workers’ compensation insurance under the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act voluntarily elected to participate in employer benefit plans that provide injured employees specified benefits in lieu of common-law remedies. We must decide whether the Workers’ Compensation Act prohibits voluntary pre-inju-ry agreements of this type and, if not, whether we should hold them void on public policy grounds because they undermine the Legislature’s workers’…