TEXAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION INS. v. SERRANO

No. 99-0122.

22 S.W.3d 341 (1999)

TEXAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND, Petitioner, v. Jose SERRANO and Graciela Chairez, individually and as next friend of Alonzo Serrano, Jose Serrano, and Guadalupe Serrano, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Overruled February 10, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynne Liberato, Houston, Roger W. Hughes, Harlingen, Mary Barrow Nichols, Austin, Michelle McCoy Monger, Kent Rutter, Houston, John Thomas Dailey, San Antonio, Mike Mills, McAllen, Jeffrey R. Boggess, Austin, for Petitioner.

Frank Costilla, Brownsville, Suzanne M. Schwarz, McAllen, Christopher T. Carver, Kevin Glasheen, Lubbock, Ramon Garcia, Edinburg, for Respondent.


Petition for Review Denied.

Justice HECHT, dissenting from the denial of the petition for review.

I respectfully dissent from the Court's denial of the petition for review.

Jose Serrano, a migrant farm worker, was injured on the job when a truck backed into him, pinning him to a parked trailer. He sustained a severe spinal injury that left him a paraplegic. During his month-long hospitalization he suffered multiple heart attacks. He is not expected...

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