Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Allen

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment, entered upon a jury’s answers to special issues, awarding lump sum payment of worker’s compensation death benefits, statutory penalties, and attorney’s fees pursuant to Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 8307, § 5a, paragraph 2 (Vernon 1967). We affirm.

By a final award of the Industrial Accident Board on April 11,1979, the appellant, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier, was ordered to pay workers’ compensation benefits as a result of the accidental death of Norman Bernard Allen, an employee…