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.
| Vehicle Injury (Accident) in Texas Law |
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Agriculture Code | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to liability for damages to roadkill or injury |
Civil Practice and Remedies | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to railroads, transportation services for welfare recipients,governmental liability, inmates |
Criminal Procedure | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to mobile tracking devices |
Finance Code | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to retail installment contracts |
Health & Safety Code | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to the transportation of sick and injured people, emergency medical services, dog attacks |
Insurance Code | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to uninsured and under-insured motorists |
Insurance Code (not codified) | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to policy forms |
Natural Resources Code | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to insurance requirements, certificates, regulations for transport trucks and trailers |
Occupation Code | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to ambulances and other emergency transportation |
Parks and Wildlife Code | Injur+vehicle* | safety apparel and equipment for off-road vehicles |
Penal Code | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to intoxication assault |
Transportation Code | Injur+vehicle* | pertaining to duty to stop and render aid,performance indicators, road superintendents,invalid license, failure to stop,accident reports, blind pedestrians, removing material from highway, financial responsibility,reckless operation |
