Pacific Employers Insurance Co. v. Brown

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice GRANT.

Pacific Employers Insurance Company, the workers’ compensation insurance carrier for the employer of the defendant, Jimmy I. Brown, an injured worker, appeals the trial court’s judgment that Brown have and recover indemnity benefits from Pacific accruing as a result of a seventeen per cent impairment rating. Pacific filed suit for the trial court to determine the limited issue of the correct impairment rating after the appeals panel affirmed the contested case hearing officer’s impairment rating determined at the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s…