Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Law
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According to the BLS Work Accident Statistics, the leading cause of workplace deaths was motor vehicle accidents. Roughly 40% of workplace deaths occurred in transportation incidents. Other leading causes were fall/slips and trips, deaths from being struck by objects or equipment, and exposure to harmful chemicals. When the loved passed away in an accident caused by the negligent actions of ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Continue Reading
Sandoval Law Firm focuses on defending the rights of employees who are injured while working for employers who are not subscribers to the Texas Workers' Compensation Act For the last 5 years, Mr. Sandoval has represented injured workers in Non-Subscriber claims in Houston, Dallas, Austin, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and The Rio Grande Valley. Because Texas Non-Subscribers know that they can ... Continue Reading
Soliciting Clients after an Accident is Illegal. When you or a loved one has suffered a personal injury or death, it is illegal for a lawyer or a representative to contact you directly requesting to represent you. Although it is illegal, “ambulance chasing” happens very frequently and almost everyone knows someone that has suffered a car accident or work accident has experienced illegal ... Continue Reading
Employers must tell their employees that they carry workers’ compensation insurance Employers must do so by providing a written notice of coverage to new employees upon hire. The written notice must inform employees of their right to reject workers’ compensation coverage and retain their common law right of action. Read also: Information for Employers from the Division of Workers’ ... Continue Reading
Do not Sign Anything that You Have Not Written or that You Do Not Understand Following a work injury, an employer will conduct a very brief investigation and may ask you to complete an injury report or statement? If you write the statement and it’s all in your handwriting, there’s no real reason to refuse to comply with your employer’s request to sign documents. On the other hand, if part of ... Continue Reading
Those benefits are there for you and you must determine if you need them. Currently, Texas is a place where a substantial amount of pressure is being placed on injured workers to continue to work in order to make ends meet. Sometimes though, you simply cannot physically handle working while you are dealing with a work injury. We understand that and, we would never recommend against taking ... Continue Reading
