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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Civil Practice and Remedies | Gang* | pertaining to coercing soliciting or inducing gain membership, public nuisance, suit to abate nuisance, street gang, gang activity, action for violation of injunction |
Criminal Procedure | Gang* | pertaining to gang-related conduct, community supervision, criminal combination and criminal street gang intelligence database, criminal information relating to a child, removal of records, texas violence gang task force, gang resources |
Education Code | Gang* | pertaining to counselors, information regarding gang free zones, fraternities sororities secret societies and gangs, solicitation of gang membership |
Family Code | Gang* | pertaining to gang-related conduct, exempted records |
Government Code | Gang* | pertaining to deterring gang related activities, notification of release of gang member, specialized training, electronic monitoring of criminal street gang, prison diversion aggressive sanctions program, equal access to facilities services and treatment, search for parent or guardian of a child, texas anti-ganggrant program |
Health & Safety Code | Gang* | pertaining to prohibited tattoos, gang-related names or symbols |
Human Resource Code | Gang* | pertaining to information regarding gang free zones, day care center |
Local Government Code | Gang* | pertaining to district responsibilities, limitation on expenditures, street gang intervention |
Penal Code | Gang* | pertaining to criminal solicitation of a minor, consent as offensive assaultive kaunda, unlawful carrying of weapons, organized criminal activity, coercing inducing or soliciting membership in a criminal street gang, directing activities of criminal street gang, gang free zones, maps as evidence of location |
Transportation Code | Gang* | pertaining to conspiring to manufacture counterfeit license or certificate |
