Western Alliance Insurance Company v. Tubbs

WILSON, Justice.

The workmen’s compensation claimant recovered judgment for medical services under Art. 8306, Sec. 7, Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St., against appellant, the carrier.

By a previous satisfied judgment, not in issue here, claimant was awarded total and permanent disability benefits and medical expenses then accrued. Claimant thereafter sustained a separation of the same fractures which constituted the injuries resulting in the first judgment. The carrier refused to pay for medical expenses alleged to result from the re-injury. A claim for cost of medical services was denied by the…