Ex Parte Americold Compressors Co.

We granted the Americold Compressors Company's petition for the writ of certiorari to consider whether the Court of Civil Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's reopening of a 1991 final judgment in a workers' compensation case to allow Nancy Stricklin's 1995 claim for future medical expenses. We reverse and render a judgment for Americold.

In December 1989, Stricklin sued Americold, seeking workers' compensation benefits for permanent partial disability, as well as for past and future medical treatment, based on a work-related injury she had suffered while employed as a spot welder with…