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Texas Court of Appeals Upholds Jury Award of Over $300,000 in Injured Construction Worker Case

The Texas Court of Appeals recently found an employer liable for an employee’s injuries due to its failure to maintain workers compensation insurance. As a result, the employer was required to pay the injured employee the amount of $310,607.48 for injuries sustained from a forklift accident on the job site.…

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Texas Court of Appeals Rules That Third Party Hospital Can Sue Employer to Pay For Employee’s Medical Care

Recently, the Texas Court of Appeals overturned a trial court’s judgment against the medical center that provided care to an injured worker in Hand and Wrist Center of Houston v. Maintenance Supply Headquarters. Daniel Contreras was an employee for Maintenance Supply when he injured his hand in June 2009. The…

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Texas Court of Appeals Rules Against Injured Worker For Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies in Holmes v. Zurich Insurance Company

One of the most difficult aspects of coping with a workplace injury can be dealing with the your employer’s insurance company. Most employers are required to carry workers compensation insurance so that ideally, when a worker is injured, he or she can receive payments until able to resume work. However,…

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Workers’ Compensation Update Part 2: No Bad Faith in Workers’ Compensation Context – Hopper v. Argonaut Insurance Company

Two recent Texas court decisions, including the October 18, 2013, decision in Hopper v. Argonaut Insurance Company, Inc., have established that there is no common law bad faith in Texas regarding workers’ compensation claims. First, last year, in Texas Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ruttiger, the Texas Supreme Court, finding that…

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Texas A&M Construction Accident Highlights Dangers faced by Construction Workers in Texas

Construction projects can be dangerous and can be the result of faulty machinery, inexperience, lack of safety measures, and weather, among other factors. Notably, the construction industry in Texas not only employs nearly 600,000 Texans, but it also contributes $9.2 billion in wages. Unfortunately, construction workers face some of the…

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Widow Files Lawsuit After Worker Dies in Texas City Industrial Accident

The widow of a 26-year-old worker killed in an industrial accident last month has filed a lawsuit for herself and on behalf of the couple’s minor child against her husband’s employer. Virgel James Stoker died after he purportedly became entangled in machinery used to package company products at Dallas Group…

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