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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litem, contracts for substitute care and case management services, placement of children, notice to attorney ad litem, consent for medical care, judicial review of medical care, consent to medical care by foster child | Government Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to duties of local administrative judge, appointment of attorney's ad litem, maintenance of lists, district court fees and costs, statutory county court fees and costs, statutory probate court fees and costs, county court fees and costs, and sent, consent to release information under special right of access, statement or testimony by certain child abuse victims | Health & Safety Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to definition of legally authorized representative, independent psychiatric evaluation and expert testimony, court hearing, consent for the release of confidential information | Human Resource Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to confidentiality and disclosure of information, agency and exchange of information, emergency order for protective services, report concerning foster children committed to commission, rules regarding services for foster children, exemption from guardianship bonds, certain costs fees and expenses | Local Government Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to supplemental court initiated guardianship fee | Natural Resources Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to definition of necessary party, deposit, attorney ad litem, notice the necessary parties | Occupation Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to definition of legally authorized representative, consent for release of confidential information, consent to disclosure of privileged information | Probate Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to attorneys ad litem, means of evidencing disclaimer or renunciation of property or interest receivable from a decedent, notification, evidence, unknown parties an incapacitated person's, notice to heirs on application to probate will after four years, decree of the court, costs and security, notice and citation, service on attorney, guardians ad litem, appointment of attorney ad litem an interpreter, duties of attorney ad litem, compensation of certain guardians, guardianship costs, use of records in hearing to appoint guardians, examinations and reports, complete restoration of ward's capacity or modification of guardianship, appointment of attorney ad litem, settling guardianships of the estate, appointment of attorney to represent ward, guardian purchasing property of the estate, creation of management trust, bond requirement for trustees | Probate Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to appointment of attorney ad litem for incapacitated spouse | Property Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to petition for escheat, guardian or attorney ad litem, waiver of notice, judicial control discretionary power, trusts for property | Tax Code | Attorney+ad+litem | pertaining to recovery of costs and expenses, liability of taxing units for costs, alternative notice of tax foreclosure on certain parcels of real property |
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