Texas Injury Blog

Why Wait? You’re Just Letting Your Employer Build Their Defense! I get it! First, you don’t’ trust lawyers and you don’t know which one to hire. I recommend you invest time and get your research done as soon as possible. If that isn’t enough, you’ve been injured on the job and now you need advice but you don’t want your employer (Non-subscribers: Amazon, Walmart, HEB, Lowe’s, etc.) to find out that you are talking to you a lawyer because you fear that you’ll get fired. I ask this over and over again to anyone who calls me after they’ve been injured, what makes you think that you have better ... Continue Reading

Sandoval Law Firm Stands Up In Court for Injured Texans Let's start with a simple question, "Why should an injured worker be worried in Texas?" Because there is a pattern of behavior followed by Texas Non-Subscriber companies and their insurance carriers that does not favor the injured Texan! At Sandoval Law Firm, PLLC, we handle nonsubscriber work injury cases in large quantities all over the State of Texas. Because of this, we have been able to study the practices of non-subscriber employers and we have discovered that there are some things that are certain to happen immediately ... Continue Reading

What Work Injury Coverage Does Your Employer Have? Texas Workers’ Compensation (Texas Department of Insurance) Non-Subscriber (Work Injury Benefit Plan under ERISA) Self-Insured (Railroads and other large companies) No Coverage. In Texas, if you suffer a work injury, you can have any one of the above situations in your case. Sometimes, determining which coverage you employer has can be difficult. Even if your employer, co-workers and adjusters are calling workers’ compensation, it can actually be a non-subscriber case. How do I figure out if My Employer is a Texas ... Continue Reading

The insurance company plays a pivotal role in making sure the goals are met. Here’s how: Reject Claims that are not reported or reported on time by the injured employee; Require the injured employee to sign a report that the employee didn’t complete; Discredit the employee by having them take a urine test; Discredit the employee by having the injured employee give a recorded statement; Send to the injured employee to an internal clinic that will purposedly take poor record of the reported incident and all the resulting injuries; Send the injured employee to an external ... Continue Reading

The Physical, Financial and Mental Impacts Involved in Work Injury or Car Wreck Cases At Sandoval Law Firm, PLLC, we handle nonsubscriber work injury cases and car wreck cases. These cases result in serious injuries and sometimes even death. Suffering a serious injury has a significant impact on the injured victim and their family. Both nonsubscriber and auto accident cases involve clients that have been injured because of the negligence of another person or a company (Texas Non-Subscriber or Third Party). Our firm focuses on helping injured Texas workers all over the state and, victims ... Continue Reading

Some Texas Non-Subscribers Are Now Requiring that Employees Sign Arbitration Agreements with a 180-day (6 months) Statute of Limitations for Work Injuries How will You know if your Work Injury is Subject to a 6-month SOL? Yes, that means you could have only 6 months to file your lawsuit as opposed to having 2 years as is typically the case under Texas Law. If you’ve been injured on the job working for a Texas employer, you need to act quickly to figure out the answer to the following two questions: On This Page Does your employer have Texas Workers’ Compensation Coverage or ... Continue Reading