High Court Frees Up Comp Attorneys to Make New Arguments After Administrative Level

A Texas Supreme Court opinion delivered Friday leaves the door open for workers’ compensation attorneys to make arguments at the trial court level that they did not make before administrative law judges.  Claimants’ attorneys were split on whether this was a good or bad thing for their clients. Austin attorney Brad McClellan said he was happy with how the high court swung in State Office of Risk Management v. Edna Martinez. The decision should shut down attorneys “trying to play games of ‘gotcha,’” he said. The Texas high court ruled in the case that...