Mansfield v. Jack

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the exclusive-remedy provision barred a worker’s suit against his employer because the provision’s lone exception did not apply
• holding that “[a]n employee may have more than one employer within the meaning of the TWCA, and each employer who subscribes to workers’ compensation insurance may raise the exclusive-remedy provision as a bar to claims about the injury.”
• observing that for worker’s compensation negligence claims, an employee may have more than one employer
• stating that “a client company is entitled to the exclusive remedy defense upon showing that it was the plaintiff’s employer and that it was covered by a workers’ compensation policy”
• noting parties agreed that Port Elevator was workers’ compensation subscriber at time of injury and no evidence of exception to rule against splitting workforce
• noting employee may have more than one employer within the meaning of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).