CUNNINGHAM LINDSEY CLAIMS MGMT. v. SNYDER

No. 14-07-00449-CV.

291 S.W.3d 472 (2009)

CUNNINGHAM LINDSEY CLAIMS MANAGEMENT, INC. and Glenda Higgins, Appellants, v. Lloyd SNYDER, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Overruled September 3, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey H. Bracken, Kristopher M. Stockberger, Stacy R. Obenhaus, John G.H. Davis, G. Byron Sims, Houston, for appellants.

Byron C. Keeling, Michael P. Doyle, Wade R. Quinn, Houston, for appellee.

Panel consists of Justices YATES, GUZMAN, and SULLIVAN.


OPINION

EVA M. GUZMAN, Justice.

In the dispositive question presented in this appeal, we are asked whether the trial court had jurisdiction to award damages to a workers' compensation claimant based on the conduct of the appellants, a third-party adjuster and the adjuster's employer, in allegedly delaying the claimant's spinal surgery. When preauthorization for the surgery was initially requested, it was denied as medically unnecessary. Because the claimant...

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