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Title: Pickett V. Texas Mutual Insurance Co.
Author : Third District, at Austin Texas Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 26, 2007
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 71 KB

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This appeal concerns the requirement that a party seeking damages for a workers' compensation insurance carrier's alleged delay or denial of medical benefits in bad faith must exhaust administrative remedies at the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission before filing suit. See American Motorists Ins. Co. v. Fodge, 63 S.W.3d 801, 804-05 (Tex. 2001). Appellants Mark Pickett and Barbara Pickett sued Texas Mutual Insurance Company for allegedly delaying or denying medical benefits to Barbara Pickett in bad faith. The trial court dismissed most of the Picketts' claims for want of jurisdiction for failure to exhaust their administrative remedies at the Commission and granted a take-nothing summary judgment against the Picketts on their claims arising from three medical disputes for which the administrative remedies had been exhausted. We affirm.