Cunningham Lindsey Claims Management, Inc. v. Snyder

OPINION

EVAM. GUZMAN, Justice.

In the dispositive question presented in this appeal, we are asked whether the trial court had jurisdiction to award damages to a workers’ compensation claimant based on the conduct of the appellants, a third-party adjuster and the adjuster’s employer, in allegedly delaying the claimant’s spinal surgery. When preauthorization for the surgery was initially requested, it was denied as medically unnecessary. Because the claimant did not challenge this determination, he failed to exhaust administrative remedies; thus, the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the…