TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-003-00381-CV

Robert S. Howell, D.C.; First Rio Valley Medical, P.A.; Keith Gilbert; William Maxwell; and Gilbert & Maxwell, P.L.L.C., Appellants

v.

Texas Workers' Compensation Commission; Envoy Medical Systems, L.L.C.; Texas

Mutual Insurance Company; State Office of Risk Management; Brownsville

Independent School District; Edwards Risk Management, Inc.,

d/b/a Edwards Claims Administration; Continental Casualty

Insurance Company; SAFECO Insurance Company; and

American Risk Fund Insurance Company, Appellees

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 201ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. GN-200967, HONORABLE W. JEANNE MEURER, JUDGE PRESIDING

O R D E R

PER CURIAM

Appellants Robert S. Howell, D.C., and First Rio Valley Medical, P.A., along with appellees SAFECO Insurance Company and American Risk Fund Insurance Company, have filed a joint motion to dismiss SAFECO and American Risk from the appeal, stating they have settled their dispute. We hereby grant the motion and dismiss SAFECO Insurance Company and American Risk Fund Insurance Company as appellees. The appeal shall continue as to the remaining appellees.

It is ordered November 14, 2003

Before Chief Justice Law, Justices Kidd and Puryear