Supreme Court of Texas

The Texas Workers' Compensation Act does not prohibit voluntary pre-injury agreements, where employees of nonsubscribers to workers' compensation insurance voluntarily elect to participate in employer benefit plans that provide injured employees specified benefits in lieu of common-law remedies.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/02/2000
• Decided 03/29/2001
• Published 03/29/2001

Judges

• Justice O'NEILL delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, Justice ABBOTT, and Justice HANKINSON.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian Paul Heinrich,Coleman Young, Robert L. Templeton, Templeton Smithee Hayes Fields Young & Heinrich, Amarillo, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• S. Tom Morris, Gibson Ochsner & Adkins, Amarillo, for Respondent CDB Services, Inc., Lewis Coppedge, Christopher Wayne Weber, Connant Whittenburg & Schacter, Amarillo, G. Luke Ashley, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, for Respondent Affiliated Foods, Inc.