Commerce & Industry Insurance Company v. Kimberly Ferguson-Stewart

NUMBER 13-10-00554-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG COMMERCE & INDUSTRY INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. KIMBERLY FERGUSON-STEWART, ET AL., Appellees. On appeal from the 163rd District Court of Orange County, Texas. MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Garza Memorandum Opinion by Justice Garza When pain medication is prescribed for an employee’s on-the-job injury, and that employee later dies from an overdose of that medicine, is the death compensable by worker’s compensation? In this case, the trial court rendered…