Fluor Wins Bid to Get Employee’s Injury Suit Dismissed in Texas

Fluor Corp. won a bid to dismiss an employee’s negligence suit when an appeals court in Texas reversed a trial court’s ruling that the worker’s child could intervene in the case.

Juan Gomez Lopez was injured in an explosion while working in Mexico at a chemical plant owned by Vinilo, which had a contract with Fluor’s Mexican susidiary to perform work at the site. He traveled to Texas to receive treatment for his burns at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in November 2016. While in the state on a visa, Lopez and his wife had a child ...