CONSIDERATION OF APPEALS PANEL DECISION
Known as the Texas Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 401.001 to 419.007 (623 sections).
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case Texas Workers' Compensation Commission v. Garcia (1995)
Most recently applied in Robert Croysdill v. Old Republic Insurance Co. (May 2016)
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) In a jury trial, the court, before submitting the case to the jury, shall inform the jury in the court's instructions, charge, or questions to the jury of the appeals panel decision on each disputed issue described by Section 410.301(a) that is submitted to the jury.
(b) In a trial to the court without a jury, the court in rendering its judgment on an issue described by Section 410.301(a) shall consider the decision of the appeals panel.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.