Court Rejects COVID-19 Death Benefits Over 'Unreliable' Expert Testimony

A Texas appellate court affirmed a decision denying a family's bid for workers' compensation death benefits, ruling that it could not find error in a lower court's decision to exclude an expert's opinion as unreliable. The same issues that rendered the expert's opinion unpersuasive also doomed any non-expert evidence suggesting that John Hill contracted COVID-19 through his employment with Brazoria County, the court said in finding no error with the trial court granting no-evidence summary judgment for the county. "In short, [the expert] did not explain his...