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.
| Fire Injury (Accident) in Texas Law |
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Government Code | Fire+injury* | pertaining to fire protection, personnel injury data, recommendation to reduce injuries |
Government Code | Fire+injury | pertaining to definition of disaster, part-time fire protection employees, fired protection personnel injury data, recommendations to reduce injuries, eligible survivors, certain notes or other obligations for emergency financing |
Health & Safety Code | Fire+injury | pertaining to maximum specifications for exterior or stairway fire escape |
Insurance Code (not codified) | Fire+injury | pertaining to rating and policy forms |
Labor Code | Fire+injury | pertaining to definition of disaster |
Local Government Code | Fire+injury | pertaining to payment of hospitalization costs for peace officers and firefighters, accumulation and payment of sick leave, lying of duty illness or injury leave of absence, payments of accumulated vacation leave and populist in his apology, payment of sick leave on termination of service, records related to disciplinary actions or charges of misconduct |
Occupation Code | Fire+injury | pertaining to investigations company |
