Texas Case Law Update

NEW! Najera v. Recana Solutions, 14-14-00332-CV, (08/20/2015): A Texas appellate court ruled that the nonsubscribing employer of a worker attacked by a colleague was not negligent for failing to perform a criminal background check on the assailant, as a matter of law. NEW! American Casualty Co. v. Bushman, 04-14-00685-CV, (08/25/2015): A Texas appellate court ruled that a truck driver was within the course and scope of his employment when he died in a car accident while in his personal vehicle, driving to the company's dispatch office to train a newly-hired dispat...