A Texas appellate court upheld a jury’s verdict awarding benefits to a state employee injured in a car accident while traveling to a training session.
Case: State Office of Risk Management v. Peña, No. 13-16-00598-CV, 02/01/2018, published.
Facts: Juan Carlos Peña worked for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. In February 2010, Peña was scheduled to travel from the HHSC office in McAllen to a mandatory training session at an HHSC office in Edinburg.
Peña suffered serious injuries in a single-vehicle car accident as he was leaving the State offic...
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