(DOWNLOAD) "Silsbee Hospital" by Texas Fourteenth District Court of Appeals * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Silsbee Hospital
- Author : Texas Fourteenth District Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 28, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
Description
In this case, an employee of a nonsubscriber to workers compensation insurance voluntarily elected to participate in an employee benefit plan that provided specified benefits in lieu of a common law remedy. The employer, Silsbee Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Columbia Silsbee Doctors Hospital, contends that under the employee benefit plan the employee, Lonny George, waived his common law rights to sue for personal injuries. The Hospital raises additional errors regarding: (1) the trial courts refusal to grant it additional strikes for certain veniremembers it challenged for cause, (2) the trial courts evidentiary rulings to exclude evidence arguably relevant to its affirmative defenses of waiver, release and estoppel, (3) the trial courts broad form damage submission and refusal to submit a damage charge with segregated elements of damage, (4) the jurys arguably excessive damage award, and, (5) the refusal of the trial court to allow it to amend its pleadings to assert the affirmative defense of ratification.