Fire and Casualty Insurance Company of Connecticut, (APPELLANT/CROSS-APPELLEE) v. Javier Miranda, (APPELLEE/CROSS-APPELLANT)

OPINION

Opinion by

SANDEE BRYAN MARION, Justice.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s judgment affirming a decision by the Appeals Panel of the Texas Worker’s Compensation Commission (“TWCC”). The TWCC determined appellee did not contract an occupational disease in the course and scope of his employment, but that appellant waived its right to contest the compensability of appellee’s claimed injury by not disputing the claim within seven days of receiving written notice of the claim. We reverse the trial court’s judgment and render a take-nothing judgment in favor of appellant, Fire and…