A former offensive lineman signed by the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys was stripped of a workers’ compensation award by a Dallas County jury after he failed to show he lived in the county when he suffered a career-ending injury.
The Texas Workers’ Compensation Act requires that a suit for judicial review of an appeals panel decision be filed in the county where the employee resided at the time of the injury.
But Reshod Fortenberry’s assertion that he lived in the Residence Inn in Dallas County doesn’t establish that he maintained that residence on the date of his injury in California, a ...
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