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.
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Education Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to special programs for students, district level planning, staff development requirements, procedures for resolving disputes between sponsoring student |
Family Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to conditions of community supervision, production arrearages, abeyance of enforcement, insinuating exclusive jurisdiction to modify child support order |
Health & Safety Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to service providers, procedures for the resolution of conflicts, selection and service providers, due process, effect of anatomical gift on advanced directive |
Human Resource Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to juvenile correctional officers, violence prevention and conflict resolution education, conflict resolution training |
Insurance Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to dispute resolution, arbitration mechanism to resolve conflicts, assessment of costs of examination |
Labor Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to workers compensation healthcare network, resolution of disputes |
Local Government Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to charter amendments, contractual adjudication |
Transportation Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to precedents of commission orders |
Water Code | Conflict+resolution* | pertaining to regional water plants, groundwater conservation district, texas water development board review, board of trustees |
