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TRAVELERS INDEM. CO. OF ILL. v. FULLER

No. 94-0648.

892 S.W.2d 848 (1995)

TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY OF ILLINOIS and Travelers Insurance Company, Petitioners v. Regina FULLER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

February 16, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry L. Beane, P. Michael Jung, Martha C. Coleman, and J. Wiley George, Dallas, for petitioners.

Richard J. Clarkson, John Hinson, and Alto V. Watson, III, Beaumont, for respondent.

OPINION

Justice HIGHTOWER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which all Justices join.

In this case we must decide whether Article 16, Section 26 of the Texas Constitution creates an independent cause of action for punitive damages where no cause of action for compensatory damages otherwise exists. Because the Workers' Compensation Act bars Regina Fuller's cause of action for compensatory damages, and because we find that Article 16, Section 26 was not...

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