Accidental Death and Injury in Texas Law
Many state and federal laws are designed to protect workers. Injuries on the job can have serious consequences, causing employees to miss work and incur high medical costs.
Defective products or negligence can be the cause of many workplace injuries. Even if you are covered by workers compensation, you may still be entitled to legal damages.
Around 6,000 children are killed by accidents every year. It is not possible to compensate parents for the death of their child, but it is sometimes possible to recover from the court for emotional and financial losses.
Texas allows for two types of legal action when someone is wrongfully murdered. The first type of action is called a wrongful-death action and the second, a survival action.
When a person dies because of negligence or liability, it is a wrongful death. The Texas wrongful-death statute, originally codified in 1861, provides the exclusive remedy in Texas for wrongful deaths. It compensates the spouse, parents or children of the deceased for any losses they may have suffered as a result.
Survival actions are separate from wrongful death actions. They arise when an individual is responsible for damages if they caused an injury to another person's death through their wrongful acts, negligence, carelessness, unskillfulness, or default. The individual would have had the right to sue for that injury if they were still alive.
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The law is in a constant state of change. Some of this information may be inaccurate
or incomplete and should not be relied upon without the advice of legal counsel.
| Disability Retirement Benefit (Accident) in Texas Law |
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Family Code | Disability+retirement+benefit* | pertaining to net resources when considering child support |
Government Code | Disability+retirement+benefit* | pertaining to report on major investment funds medical board or medical committee, injury leave for peace officers, definition of public retirement system, retirement eligibility based on combined of service credit, eligibility to transfer service credit, establishment of public retirement system, deposit refundable, use of military service credit,disability were term of benefits for employee class service, disability retirement benefits for peace officers, refund act annuity discontinuance, occupational disability retiree death benefits, return of excess contributions, survivor benefits, loss of monthly benefits, exceptions, involuntary termination of participation, termination of membership, eligibility for disability retirement annuity, eligibility for supplemental disability retirement annuity, conditions for benefits, optional occupational disability benefits program, application for occupational disability benefits, standard occupational disability retirement annuity, reports required of retirees, supplemental disability benefits funds, certification and continuing to disability,first payment of retirement or death benefit annuity, claim and appeal procedure, interruption of payments, medical board |
Government Code | Disability+retirement+benefit* | pertaining to applicability, management or investment of state funds invested in public retirement systems |
Local Government Code | Disability+retirement+benefit* | pertaining to evaluation of certain benefit programs, definition of public pension, employee plans |
