at 840. Furthermore, Ruby’s lacks an adequate remedy by appeal. The Workers’ Compensation Act is contractual in nature. See Aranda v. Insurance Co. of N. Am., 748 S.W.2d 210, 212 (Tex.1988). The carrier agrees to compensate the employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment and the employee agrees to relinquish his common law rights against the employer. See id. The Regislature’s aim is to assure the injured employee that he will be fairly and reasonably compensated for his injuries while saving the employer the time, expense and uncertainty of litigation. Ruby’s will forever lose the benefit of that bargain if forced to trial and then the Commission subsequently decides Gaetjen’s claim is compensable. Cf. Jack B. Anglin Co. v. Tipps, 842 S.W.2d 266, 272-73 (Tex.1992) (<HOLDING>). Such a result would nullify the very purpose
holding that purpose of stay pending arbitration is twofold it relieves the party entitled to arbitrate of the burden of continuing to litigate the issue while the arbitration process is ongoing and it entitles that party to proceed immediately to arbitration without the delay that would be occasioned by an appeal of the district courts order to arbitrate holding denial of mandamus challenging arbitration order did not bar appeal of that order after arbitration was completed holding that the federal arbitration act requires piecemeal resolution when necessary to give effect to an arbitration agreement and mandates enforcement of an arbitration agreement notwithstanding the presence of other persons who are parties to the underlying dispute but not to the arbitration agreement emphasis added holding that a party who is erroneously deprived of the benefits of an arbitration contract under the federal arbitration act is without adequate remedy by appeal and entitled to mandamus relief holding that rookerfeldman precludes jurisdiction over a federal lawsuit to compel arbitration under the federal arbitration act because the action was inextricably intertwined with the plaintiffs failed statelaw action to compel arbitration under the louisiana arbitration act