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.
| Manufacturing Liability (Accident) in Texas Law |
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Civil Practice and Remedies | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to products liability, definition of products liability action, manufacturers duty to indemnify, liability of non-manufacturing sellers, inherently unsafe products, firearms and ammunition, medicines, compliance with government standards, liability for manufacture of methamphetamine |
Finance Code | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to liability of real property owner for refusal to allow predator to repossessed manufactured home |
Government Code | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to powers of economic development programs involving state and local governments |
Health & Safety Code | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to customer notice, limitation on liability, tanning facility, laser hair removal |
Insurance Code | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to authority to reinsurer, coverage for physicians or health care providers under vendor endorsements or policies, liability defined |
Occupation Code | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to limitation on liability, disagreement of parties, informal to spew resolution, liability of franchised dealer |
Property Code | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to waiver of rights and duties, manufactured home community rule |
Transportation Code | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to liability insurance for vehicle towing manufactured houses |
Water Code | Manufactur+liabilit* | pertaining to limited liability for aquatic herbicide application |
